Deck 2: Language Development

Question 1

When children first hear a word, they make a ________ to connect the word to a meaning.

A) Word extension
B) Fast mapping
C) Speech segmentation
D) Telegraphic speech

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A child is telling his aunt about his experience with the school bus yesterday. Which of the following is an example of overregularization?

A) The bus was came.
B) We heard the bus driven.
C) We seed the bus.
D) The bus had wheels.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What is the Poverty of the Stimulus argument?

A) The claim that children are not stimulated enough to learn language.
B) The claim that children learn grammar through statistical learning.
C) The claim that children come to know more about language than can be induced from input.
D) The suggestion that children are only able to learn language presented in their experiences.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

A child looks at her mother, looks at a tree, points to the tree, then alternates looking at her mother and the tree while her mother talks about the tree. This is an example of ____.

A) Comprehensive pointing
B) Joint attention
C) Intention reading
D) Social gating

Question 5

Segmenting the speech stream on the basis of transitional probabilities between syllables is an example of_____.

A) Distributional learning
B) Phonological learning
C) Statistical learning
D) Universal grammar

Question 6

Discuss the differences between child-directed speech and adult-directed speech, including both acoustic differences and differences in content. Explain how some of the unique properties of child-directed speech might support language development.

Question 7

Explain the differences between the generative and constructivist approaches to language development.