Deck 2: Normal Language Development a Review

Question 1

What are the accompanying motor, cognitive and social developments that occur during the pre-linguistic period? What environmental factors might come in to play? What impact does this have on speech development in the infant?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Calculate the MLU of the following utterances:
Doggie runned away.
More juice please.
Baby up.
Juice all-gone.
Johnny painting doggie.

Answer 2

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Question 3

Deictic words are:

A) present in Brown's Stage 1
B) terms that have changing referents
C) always nouns
D) temporal in nature

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In semantic development, what is meant by over-extension and under-extension?

Question 5

Having discussed both Bloom's (1970) and Brown's (1973) semantic relations in class, provide students with the following word list and ask them to combine these words in as many different two-word combinations as they can. Then have students exchange lists with another pair of students. Ask each
student to classify each two-word combination against each possible semantic relation.
Word list: doggie, ball, no, more, nigh-nigh, gone, here, my, mommy, juice.

Question 6

Require students to develop and create materials aimed at teen mothers to promote the speech, language and literacy development of their infants. Explanations, images, and materials should be appropriate to the audience (teen mothers).

Question 7

"ba da na" is an example of ___________ babbling.

A) cooing
B) variegated
C) reduplicated
D) iconic

Question 8

When do metalinguistic skills develop?

A) during the prelinguistic period
B) beginning at age 7-8 years into adulthood
C) in conjunction with the emergence of turn-taking
D) Brown's Stage 1

Question 9

The development of two-word utterances is not haphazard. List three ways in which it is developed?

Question 10

The final stage of speech act development is known as the:

A) locutionary period.
B) illocutionary period
C) perlocutionary period
D) logistical period

Question 11

Provide students with the checklist based on Table 2.2. Show students an appropriate video of a child in the one-word stage and ask them to write down any utterances the child has which correspond to each type of Lahey's (1988) relational words. Discuss student examples in class.

Question 12

What are some of the federal education initiatives that have been put into place in the last ten years to improve literacy development? What role does the speech-language pathologist play in those initiatives?
Learning Activities

Question 13

Prior to class, assign a debate question and ask all students to prepare both sides of the question. On the day of the debate, divide the class into groups of 6-8 students. Assign each group as "pro" or "con" and allow 15 minutes for the groups to prepare. Follow a traditional debate structure. Suggested topic: "The school
system is responsible for literacy development."

Question 14

Present students with a number of story books for preschoolers which are well known to your students (e.g., Goldilocks, Winnie the Pooh, or The Cat in the Hat). Ask students to determine which narrative structure each story contains and to identify the story elements contained therein.

Question 15

Write three utterances which might be typical of a three year old child and indicate the features of these
utterances.

Question 16

What defines a true first word?

Question 17

What role does shared storybook reading play in literacy development? What cultural and socio-economic factors might be involved?

Question 18

Define a phonological process.

Question 19

In semantic development, "mama" applying to all women is an example of:

A) over-extension
B) under-extension
C) non-reduplicated babbling
D) substitution

Question 20

Provide students with two language transcripts from a child in the three-four word utterance range. Use the first language sample to demonstrate calculating both mean number of words and mean length of utterance (MLU). Discuss the value of each calculation. Ask students to calculate MLU on the second language sample. Discuss their results in class.

Question 21

Which two aspects of oral language appear to be related to the development of metalinguistic skills?

Question 22

Describe some of the devices used by children to maintain topic in conversation.

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Question 24

List and briefly describe Applebee's six levels of narrative.

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Question 26

List the factors associated with a child's environments that promote literacy.

Question 27

Explain what is meant by "fast mapping is a lexical acquisition strategy".

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Question 29

How do young children vary their use of definite and indefinite articles?

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