Research on the communicative competence of deaf children demonstrates the importance of
a. hearing
b. having loving parents
c. early conversational experience
d. intensive interventions
Ques. 2Pragmatic deficits are a central characteristic of children with
a. parents who do not speak the majority language in a culture
b. autism spectrum disorders
c. many older siblings
d. Down syndrome
Ques. 3When a mother treats her three month old as a full-fledged conversational partner, this is known as a linguistic format.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Ques. 4What behavior best demonstrates that language reflects adolescents' social identity?
a. using indirect rather than direct requests
b. giving feedback when younger siblings make pragmatic errors
c. using African American English selectively in school settings
d. Participating in family dinner table conversations
Ques. 5In order to take turns in conversations, preschoolers are able to use
a. obvious cues that speakers are done
b. speakers' facial expressions and tone of voice
c. syntactic cues that mark grammatical boundaries
d. all of the above
Ques. 6A speech register refers to language
a. produced at a certain decibel level
b. that groups of people in different parts of a country can all understand
c. that is unique to particular countries
d. used in particular settings or when talking about certain topics
Ques. 7Ellipsis is a linguistic device that helps children
a. connect topics in conversations
b. make good impressions on teachers
c. understand the meaning of requests
d. scaffold their conversations with parents
Ques. 8What source(s) of information might lead an infant to guess that a particular word encountered in the speech stream is a noun?
a. The word appears in a distributional context that often features other words that are nouns (a frequent frame' for nouns, such as after the word the and before the word on).
b. Infants cannot determine the syntactic category of words; children are only able to do this after they enter primary school.
c. The child knows the meaning of the word, and knows that it refers to an object, and the child knows innately (or has learned) that objects tend to be nouns.
d. Both (a) and (c).
Ques. 9Which of the following claims about cross-linguistic language development is accurate?
a. children master the passive late, regardless of the language being learned
b. children master nouns before verbs, regardless of the language being learned
c. children have more difficulty with object gap relative clauses than subject gap relative clauses, regardless of the language being learned.
d. children have more difficulty with subject gap relative clauses than object gap relative clauses, regardless of the language being learned.
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