Sex-linked genetic characteristics appear in phenotypes
a. of women more often than men.
b. of men more often than women.
c. of women and men rarely and equally.
d. of women and men often and equally.
Question 2Which linguistic term LEAST resembles the other three?
a. Prelinguistic coo
b. Metalinguistic awareness
c. Semantic integration
d. Inference
Question 3Sex-linked genetic characteristics
a. are controlled by genes located on autosomes.
b. develop via experiential learning.
c. are controlled by genes located at the 23rd chromosome pair.
d. distinguish sex offenders from other adults.
Question 4Grade-schoolers become good at ____, which enables them to go beyond the information received during comprehension.
a. language-making capacity (LMC)
b. semantic integration
c. the naming explosion
d. listening for creoles
Question 5Suppose that a child developed mild symptoms of sickle-cell anemia. It may be correctly inferred that
a. the child is heterozygous for the sickle-cell trait.
b. the child received the sickle-cell trait from both parents and is homozygous for this disorder.
c. the sickle trait is absent from the child's alleles.
d. the symptoms developed from experiential learning.
Question 6The child's morphological knowledge
a. is about details of prefixes, suffixes, and other syllable modifiers that are attached to words.
b. suffers under mutual exclusivity constraints.
c. is maximized during the holophrastic period.
d. is balanced by underextension and overextension.
Question 7The principle of codominance ____ Mendel's classic principles of inheritance.
a. supports
b. is irrelevant to
c. contradicts
d. simplifies
Question 8Ten-year-olds have a receptive vocabulary of about ____ words that they comprehend.
a. 1,000
b. 10,000
c. 40,000
d. 400,000
Question 9Sickle-cell anemia is a rare disease generally, but it is more common among ____ than among people of other races.
a. Hispanics
b. African Americans
c. Asian Americans
d. Caucasians
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