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A pregnant mother is wondering what the baby she is carrying is learning about language. Which
of the following answers would you feel most comfortable giving her? correct answers -syntax
-semantics
-phonology
-[prosody]
A researcher wants to know whether a fetuses can recognize the sound of their own mothers's
voices compared to strangers' voices. Which of the following is a dependent variable that the
researcher is likely to select in order to measure voice recognition in fetuses (who are still in the
womb)? correct answers -percent correct button presses
-reaction time
-eye movements to different faces
-[heart rate]
At the park, a father sees a tree and tells his son, "Look at that tree! See that tree?" The father is
helping the child solve the mapping problem by ____________. correct answers -preventing
undergeneralizations
-using overregularization
-[using child directed speech]
-ignoring him
How does the evidence collected by Golinkoff and colleagues (1987) regarding the
comprehension abilities of children suggest that children who produce only one-word utterances
are capable of fully comprehending far more complex ones? correct answers Such children look
, longer at a screen depicting Big Bird tickling Cookie Monster than a screen depicting the
opposite arrangement if they hear the sentence "Big Bird is tickling Cookie Monster."
Jordan's parents like to warn him before he takes bites of his food that it is hot. "Hot!" they say
as he takes several bites. Later, when they are outside, Jordan's dad says "Jordan, it's hot today!"
Jordan looks confused, says "Hot!" and points to his mouth, which is what he often does when he
wants food. Which of the following kinds of word-based errors is Jordan making? correct
answers undergeneralization
Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish intonational contours in their
maternal language (such as French) and those in another language (such as Russian) by the time
they are 4 days old. The most likely explanation of this finding is that children are learning the
prosodic contours of _______________? correct answers their native language while still in the
womb
One of the possible problems with MLU (mean length of utterances) as a measure of children's
linguistic capabilities is that: correct answers it is likely a more conservative measure than
measures of comprehension abilities.
The phonemes /r/ and /l/ do not form minimal pairs in Japanese, but they do in English. Research
shows that for these two phonemes, it is ________ who have the most trouble distinguishing
between them. correct answers Japanese adults
Which of the following factors may influence the order of acquisition of grammatical
morphemes? correct answers -the semantic complexity of the morphemes
-the syntactic complexity of the morphemes
-frequency of parental usage
-[All of the above options may influence the order of acquisition]
Which of the following is the most likely speech pattern of an 11-month-old infant? correct
answers "gabudonapatee"
A pregnant mother is wondering what the baby she is carrying is learning about language. Which
of the following answers would you feel most comfortable giving her? correct answers -syntax
-semantics
-phonology
-[prosody]
A researcher wants to know whether a fetuses can recognize the sound of their own mothers's
voices compared to strangers' voices. Which of the following is a dependent variable that the
researcher is likely to select in order to measure voice recognition in fetuses (who are still in the
womb)? correct answers -percent correct button presses
-reaction time
-eye movements to different faces
-[heart rate]
At the park, a father sees a tree and tells his son, "Look at that tree! See that tree?" The father is
helping the child solve the mapping problem by ____________. correct answers -preventing
undergeneralizations
-using overregularization
-[using child directed speech]
-ignoring him
How does the evidence collected by Golinkoff and colleagues (1987) regarding the
comprehension abilities of children suggest that children who produce only one-word utterances
are capable of fully comprehending far more complex ones? correct answers Such children look
, longer at a screen depicting Big Bird tickling Cookie Monster than a screen depicting the
opposite arrangement if they hear the sentence "Big Bird is tickling Cookie Monster."
Jordan's parents like to warn him before he takes bites of his food that it is hot. "Hot!" they say
as he takes several bites. Later, when they are outside, Jordan's dad says "Jordan, it's hot today!"
Jordan looks confused, says "Hot!" and points to his mouth, which is what he often does when he
wants food. Which of the following kinds of word-based errors is Jordan making? correct
answers undergeneralization
Mehler and colleagues (1988) showed that infants can distinguish intonational contours in their
maternal language (such as French) and those in another language (such as Russian) by the time
they are 4 days old. The most likely explanation of this finding is that children are learning the
prosodic contours of _______________? correct answers their native language while still in the
womb
One of the possible problems with MLU (mean length of utterances) as a measure of children's
linguistic capabilities is that: correct answers it is likely a more conservative measure than
measures of comprehension abilities.
The phonemes /r/ and /l/ do not form minimal pairs in Japanese, but they do in English. Research
shows that for these two phonemes, it is ________ who have the most trouble distinguishing
between them. correct answers Japanese adults
Which of the following factors may influence the order of acquisition of grammatical
morphemes? correct answers -the semantic complexity of the morphemes
-the syntactic complexity of the morphemes
-frequency of parental usage
-[All of the above options may influence the order of acquisition]
Which of the following is the most likely speech pattern of an 11-month-old infant? correct
answers "gabudonapatee"
