Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Overregularization occurs when children apply regular grammatical patterns to irregular words. In this case, "was came" is an incorrect application of the regular past tense rule to the irregular verb "come."

Question 3

What is the Poverty of the Stimulus argument?

Accepted Answer

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 ____.

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Question 5

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

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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.

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Question 7

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

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Quiz 2: Language Development