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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: child-directed speech

Answer:

language spoken in a higher pitch than normal, with simple words and sentences

Question 2: what is Berko's card experiment?

Answer:

kids were shown words that don't exist but they were able to apply morphological rules

Question 3: what is the behavioral view of language?

Answer:

that language is a learned skill, but this is not a good explanation

Question 4: overextension

Answer:

when children apply a word to objects that are inappropriate for the word's meaning

Question 5: how can you enhance a child's acquisition of language?

Answer:

use child directed speech, recasting, expanding, and labeling

Question 6: bilingual education

Answer:

teaching an academic subject to immigrant children in their native language while slowly teaching English

Question 7: the alphabetic principle

Answer:

that the letters of the alphabet represent sounds of the language

Question 8: pragmatics

Answer:

the appropriate use of language in context

Question 9: telegraphic speech

Answer:

the use of short and precise words without grammatical markers

Question 10: Wernicke's area

Answer:

an area of the brain's left hemisphere that is involved in language comprehension

Question 11: what sound sequence do babies go through in the first year?

Answer:

crying, cooing, and babbling

Question 12: aphasia

Answer:

a loss or impairment of language processing resulting from damage to Broca's area or Wernicke's area

Question 13: underextension

Answer:

when children apply a word too narrowly

Question 14: basic skills and phonics approach

Answer:

reading should involve simplified materials

Question 15: damage to Broca's area

Answer:

difficulty producing words correctly

Question 16: infinite generativity

Answer:

ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules

Question 17: what is an example of telegraphic speech?

Answer:

two-word utterances

Question 18: spoken vocabulary

Answer:

words the child uses

Question 19: morphology

Answer:

the rules for combining morphemes

Question 20: semantics

Answer:

the meanings of words and sentences

Question 21: dialect

Answer:

variety of language distinguished by vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation

Question 22: labeling

Answer:

identifying the names of objects

Question 23: what do all human languages have?

Answer:

infinite generativity and organizational rules

Question 24: damage to Wernicke's area

Answer:

poor comprehension and fluent yet incomprehensible speech

Question 25: whole language approach

Answer:

reading should be whole and meaningful

Question 26: phonology

Answer:

how sounds are used and combined

Question 27: expanding

Answer:

restating, in a linguistically sophisticated form, what a child has said

Question 28: Broca's area

Answer:

an area of the brain's left frontal lobe that is involved in producing words