Normally developing children start to learn to talk at about the same time as they learn to walk. ...

Normally developing children start to learn to talk at about the same time as they learn to walk.
 
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Ques. 2

A feature of child directed speech in English that is likely to have an important effect on a child's language comprehension is
 
  a) the use of the ie suffix added to many words
  b) exaggerated stress and intonation patterns
  c) rapid speech and changing of subjects
  d) lower pitch and repetition of important words

Ques. 3

Almost all right-handed individuals have their language functions in the left hemisphere, whereas only about half of all left handed people are left-lateralized for language.
 
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Ques. 4

Recent research studies using bonobo chimpanzees has indicated that bonobos are able to grasp the pragmatic rules of language as well as or better than young children.
 
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Ques. 5

Very young children in the one-word stage are more likely to refer to objects that are stationary than to objects that move.
 
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Ques. 6

During the first year of life, infants
 
  a) cannot discriminate fine distinctions among the sounds of the language spoken around them
  b) lose the ability to discriminate fine distinctions among sounds of languages not spoken around them
  c) are able to produce all the sounds of every known human language
  d) can learn the sounds of a language not spoken around them if they are exposed to that language via television or radio broadcasts

Ques. 7

Children whose native language contains difficult sounds and complex phonological rules, such as Chinese, learn to speak somewhat later than children whose native languages are relatively less complex.
 
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Ques. 8

When a mother points at a dog and says Look A doggie to her seven month old, she is
 
  a) establishing joint attention
  b) familiarizing the child with his environment
  c) explicitly teaching the child vocabulary words
  d) probably not affecting the child's language development one way or the other

Ques. 9

Children who are bilingual may have some advantages in the acquisition of metalinguistic skills.
 
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Ques. 10

Normal children in every part of the world acquire the major components of their language by the time they are three or four.
 
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