Deck 5: Conceptual Development and the Biological World

Question 1

___ proposed that infants are born with a "language acquisition device" (LAD) which enables them to readily acquire language.

Answer 1

Chomsky

Question 2

Infant-directed speech (IDS) is also known as " ___ "

Answer 2

motherese

Question 3

In adults, phoneme perception is ___; there is a measurable point at which highly similar sounds stop being perceived as one phoneme and begin being perceived as another.

Answer 3

categorical

Question 4

___ are sounds that are categorized as sounding the same, even if their acoustic features are different from the prototype.

Question 5

Nonprototypical members of a category are perceived as more similar to the prototype than to each other. This is the ___ effect.

Question 6

___ are the rules that govern sequences of phonemes used to make words.

Question 7

In the stages of infants' speech-like vocal development, "gooing" emerges prior to ___ babbling and canonical babbling.

Question 8

Pettito and Marentette (1991) found that deaf babies produced repetitive "___ babble", which contained a small subset of the sign units and duplicated the rhythm and stress of sign language.

Question 9

In the neural pathways for auditory processing, the ___ pathway processes information about vocalizations and acoustic-phonetic cues.

Question 10

In EEG studies with adults, the ___ negativity (MMN) is a typical brain response to phonemic processing.

Question 11

Cameron-Faulkner et al.'s (2003) study found that children typically heard between 5000 and 7000 utterances a day from their mothers, and that a third of these utterances were ___

Question 12

Infants' first words are usually words for salient objects, actions, or social ___ (like "bye-bye").

Question 13

Children's vocabulary acquisition for most children is ___, a smoothly accelerating exponential function, not a "vocabulary spurt" or burst.

Question 14

For infants, ___ might provide a cognitive bridge between word comprehension and word production.

Question 15

In word learning, use their names and words like "Mommy" to act as "___ points" in the speech stream to facilitate learning of adjacent words.

Question 16

"Fast ___" refers to children's ability to form quick and rough hypotheses about the meaning of a new word.

Question 17

___ rules govern the internal structure of words.

Question 18

According to Tomasello, grammatical development centers around the acquisition of "good grammatical forms" that are learned as ___ of language.

Question 19

The ___ of language development involve learning to communicate competently.

Question 20

To a large extent, the language used in social routines is ___ and does not have intrinsic meaning.