Which of the following differences among languages has been show to influence children's linguistic development?
A. the phonological inventory of a language's sound system
B. the frequency of occurrence of a language's grammatical markers
C. the structure of the lexicon and the grammar of the language
D. all of the above have been shown to influence children's language development
Question 2The course of language development is universal in regards to:
A. how and when children babble and gesture.
B. the emergence of first words.
C. grammatical learning milestones.
D. all of the above are aspects of language development that are universal.
Question 3Which of the following is a factor that influences children's developing abilities in conversational skills, narrative skills, and the use of situationally appropriate language:
A. linguistic development, including increased vocabularies and knowledge of syntactic structures.
B. cognitive development, including the ability to track others' intentions and goals.
C. parental interactions, including scaffolding, and maternal responsiveness.
D. all of the above are factors which influence children's development in these areas.
Question 4Which of the following is NOT evidence that children can use and understand situationally appropriate language?
A. the fact that children in higher socioeconomic status households tend to have larger vocabularies than children in lower socioeconomic househoulds
B. the fact that boys and girls speak differently in ways that reflect the different ways that men and women speak differently
C. when acting out roles for puppets, children speak differently for different characters, such as having a doctor puppet use more imperative forms than a patient puppet
D. the fact that children will use more polite requests (such as using indirect questions and saying the word please) when asked to speak very nicely
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