Compared to a child who uses a more Expressive style, children who have a Referential style are:
A. more likely to use a wide variety of social expressions.
B. more likely to use nouns that can be easily understood by adults.
C. likely to be more advanced in their language skills as they enter school.
D. more likely to have used a holistic approach when learning their first words..
Question 2The vocabulary Word Spurt:
A. is idiosyncratic: some children show them and some do not.
B. is necessary for typical language development.
C. happens to all children once they have acquired 50 words.
D. happens to all children at approximately the same age.
Question 3Children's on-line processing of words:
A. is something that researchers still have no way to measure.
B. demonstrates that children's knowledge of words is binary: either a child knows everything about a word or nothing about it.
C. is positively correlated with their vocabulary size: children who are faster processers have larger vocabularies.
D. demonstrates that children have extensive difficulties processing even the simplest words.
Question 4Which of the following is TRUE about nouns and verbs in children's early word learning?
A. Nouns and verbs typically refer to different kinds of meanings, and the meanings of nouns may be easier for children to learn.
B. Children require different kinds of information to learn nouns and verbs: noun meanings can often be learned through observation alone while many verb meanings require children to use syntactic information as well.
C. In some languages, nouns and verbs are present in approximately equal quantities in children's early vocabularies.
D. All of the above statements are true.
Question 5Children's first 50 words:
A. are highly idiosyncratic and differ dramatically from child to child.
B. contain no function words among them.
C. are acquired very rapidly as soon as a child begins to talk
D. consist of a variety of kinds of words, but at least in English, contain a relatively large number of nouns.
Question 6One of the first words of a young child was go. For almost a month, the child said this word only when her mother was buckling her in her car seat. This is an example of:
A. a mental lexicon.
B. a proto word.
C. context-bound word use.
D. a hyper word.
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