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Children's early use of gesture is:
 
  A. largely unrelated to children's language development.
  B. an impediment to children's language development because it allows for communication outside of language.
  C. only important for children learning sign languages.
  D. predictive of children's language abilities and development.

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT an example of early intention reading?
 
  A. an infant monitors a speaker's gaze to infer the object they are labeling.
  B. an infant infers the probable goal of an adult by watching them attempt an action.
  C. an infant expresses her intentions by crying when she is hungry.
  D. all of the above are examples of early intention reading.

Question 3

Joint attention is:
 
  A. a social-communicative act in which a person pays attention to transitions, or joints, in an event
  B. a social-communicative act in which a person asks another person to join them in an activity
  C. a social-communicative act in which a person jointly attends to both an object and another person
  D. a formal computational process required for attending to multiple stimuli

Question 4

The importance of communication for the development of language is that:
 
  A. virtually all of language development can be explained in terms of communicative needs.
  B. children appear to require a live communicative context to motive their learning.
  C. communication plays no role in the process of language development.
  D. young children have no need to use language to communicate.

Question 5

Recent research on the genetic basis of language development suggests that:
 
  A. language development is wholly dependent on genetic effects.
  B. environmental effects have a greater influence on grammatical development than on lexical development.
  C. environmental effects have a greater influence on lexical development than on grammatical development.
  D. language development is wholly dependent on environmental effects.

Question 6

Adults' ability to acquire a second language acquisition depends on:
 
  A. the age at which they are exposed to the second language.
  B. their personal motivations to learn the second language.
  C. the type of social access they have to the second language.
  D. all of the above influence how well adults acquire a second language.

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