Unlike nearly all words in spoken languages, many signs in signed languages can be formed so that they resemble to some extent the objects, actions, or properties to which they refer. This characteristic of manual signs is known as
a. arbitrariness
b. convention
c. mirroring
d. iconicity
Ques. 2All of these are assumptions of the social interactionist approach EXCEPT
a. parents insist on teaching their children social routines
b. operant conditioning causes children to correctly use morphological rules
c. social play between mothers and infants forms the basis of later conversational patterns
d. CDS facilitates language learning
Ques. 3The fact that neglected children tend to have more serious language delays than abused children who are not neglected supports
a. behavioral theory
b. cognitive theory
c. linguistic theory
d. social interactionist theory
Ques. 4Which of these is a criticism leveled at the cognitive theory of language development?
a. In the real world, language learning has not been associated with cognitive development
b. It cannot explain the functions of language
c. It cannot explain the internalization of grammatical rules
d. Some children, such as those with Turner's syndrome, have normal language skills and yet score very poorly on cognitive tests
Ques. 5According to a cognitive perspective, what concept does a child need in order to begin learning language?
a. the concept of object permanence
b. the concept that everything has a name
c. the concept that symbols and objects are different
d. the concept of displacement in time
Ques. 6If a man means to say I'm on my way to the office, but actually says I'm on my office to the way, this illustrates
a. the difference between competence and performance
b. abnormal language development
c. feature-blind aphasia
d. the learnability problem
Ques. 7Studies of hearing children born to deaf parents have shown
a. that they can learn to speak normally by watching television, although at a slower rate
b. that exposure to television alone will not allow a child to develop adequate spoken language
c. that they will spontaneously develop their own spoken language with grammatical rules remarkably similar to those of known languages
d. that they rarely attempt to vocalize at all, unless they receive speech therapy
Ques. 8The apparent correlation between the development of object permanence and disappearance words (e.g., all gone) supports the
a. cognitive interactionist approach
b. social interactionist approach
c. linguistic approach
d. behavioral approach
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