Deck 5: Language Development: Birth Through the Pre-School Years

Question 1

Which of the following are most newborn (0-2 months) babies able to do?

A) Discriminate differences between "pa" and "ba"
B) Produce syllable clusters ("ba ba")
C) Use grammatical morphemes
D) Understand indirect requests

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Research has found that infants are unable to participate in communicative exchanges with their parents.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The stage of communication development in which parents read intentionality into their child's utterances is called the ________________ stage.

Answer 3

(Perlocutionary)

Question 4

For most children, true first words emerge sometime during the period from _________ to ______
months.

Question 5

Children at the "two word" stage of language development:

A) never say more than two words.
B) are unable to communicate their intentions.
C) often use modifiers and articles in their language.
D) may run words together during their transition to this stage.

Question 6

"Mean length of utterance" is defined as:

A) The average duration (in seconds) of a sentence.
B) The total number of words spoken by a child.
C) The average number of sentences in a language sample.
D) The average number of morphemes in a language sample.

Question 7

What is the relationship between early language development and emergent literacy? How do early literacy experiences affect language development?

Question 8

One a trip to a farm, an 18 month old child saw a cow and said, "doggie." This is an example of:

A) a protoimperative.
B) lexical overextension.
C) reduction of a consonant cluster.
D) lexical underextension.

Question 9

If a child were to be left alone so that she was not exposed to any language input, it is likely that the child:

A) would speak English, the universal language.
B) would develop language in a normal way.
C) would develop little if any language.
D) would develop American Sign Language.

Question 10

According to Brown, the major language development at Stage II is:

A) emergence of complex sentences.
B) use of babble.
C) use of grammatical morphemes.
D) use of figurative language.

Question 11

Recent research has found that both infants and parents contribute to the communicative interactions between them. Describe what each contributes to these interactions.

Question 12

Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) is calculated by dividing the total number of _______________ by the number of _________________.

Question 13

The major language development during Brown's Stage II is the emergence of _________________.

Question 14

Describe the typical first words used by young children in terms of their language characteristics (e.g. length, type of word, etc.).

Question 15

Babies begin to use spoken language shortly after birth.

Question 16

Place the following language developments in the order in which they occur: ______ (1)

A) use of complex sentences
______ (2)
B) emergence of grammatical morphemes
______ (3)
C) use of babble

Question 17

Most babies begin to use true words at about 5 months of age.

Question 18

Complex sentences are completely developed in most children by the end of Stage IV (40 months).

Question 19

Parents usually speak more slowly and use shorter sentences with their very young children.

Question 20

For most children, the first words that emerge are nouns and verbs.