Pregunta 1
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[blank_start]__________[blank_end] is the sound system of a language and the rules for combining these sounds to produce meaningful units of speech
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morphology
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phonology
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pragmatics
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semantics
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syntax
Pregunta 2
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[blank_start]______[blank_end] is composed of the rules governing the formation of meaningful words from sounds
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morphology
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phonology
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pragmatics
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semantics
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syntax
Pregunta 3
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[blank_start]________[blank_end] is the expressed meaning of words and sentences
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morphology
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phonology
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pragmatics
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semantics
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syntax
Pregunta 4
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[blank_start]_________[blank_end] is the structure of a language; the rules specifying how words and grammatical markers are to be combined to produce meaningful sentences
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morphology
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phonology
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pragmatics
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semantics
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syntax
Pregunta 5
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[blank_start]______[blank_end] include principles that underlie the effective and approptiate use of language to social contexts
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morphology
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phonology
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pragmatics
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semantics
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syntax
Pregunta 6
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A young child's tendency to use relatively specific words to a broad set of objects, actions or events is called a(n) [blank_start]_________[blank_end]
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overextension
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underextension
Pregunta 7
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The notion that young children make inferences about the meaning of words by analyzing the way words are used insentences and inferring whether they refer to objects, actions, or attributes is called [blank_start]__________[blank_end].
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object scope constraint
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mutual exclusivity constraint
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lexical contrast constraint
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syntactical bootstrapping
Pregunta 8
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The [blank_start]_______[blank_end] is the single-word utterance that represents an entire sentence's worth of meaning.
Pregunta 9
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Tamina is preoccupied with pointing at things and asking what they are. She is a toddler who experiences
Pregunta 10
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The fact that coos sound the same whether or not the young infant can hear suggests that coos
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convey self-generated meanings for adult listeners
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develop with maturation of the brain and vocal organs
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are a relection of the parents' recasts and extensions
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arise from the infant's mutual exclusivity constraint
Pregunta 11
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The unfant uses imperatice gestures to get others to
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notice the infant's ideas
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expand pidgin into vocables
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fulfill the infant's requests
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initiate communication via telegraphic speech
Pregunta 12
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The first word of a first child usually vastly differs from those of their younger siblings. This illustrates the concept of
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the sensitive-period hypothesis
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the birth order hypothesis
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the sex-difference hypothesis
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the critical period hypothesis
Pregunta 13
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During the last phase of question asking, the child is able to ask adultlike questions such as:
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"What is Mommy reading?"
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"Where Mommy?"
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"Mommy here?"
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"Where Mommy go?"
Pregunta 14
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Cross-cultural studies on passives show that children whose language has many passive constructions
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get bored with passives, so actives are preferred
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use many passives in their own uttered sentences
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have family pets that show humanlike fluencies
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become "cognitively chokes" on sentences' meanings
Pregunta 15
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Level of _________ is a strong predictor of the child's reading skill in grade school
Pregunta 16
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Conversing with siblings promotes effective communication because
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telegraphic speech is highly accurate in its content
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creoles debelop more from children than from adults
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kids in large groups shout at one another
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noticing siblings' conprehension errors makes the speaker aware of the need to express indeas clearly
Pregunta 17
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Overregularization refers to the young child's tendency to use relatively specific words to refer to a broader set of objects, actions, or events than adults do (such as using the word "car" to refer to all motor vehicles).
Pregunta 18
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Transformational grammar refers to rules of syntax that allow one to transform declarative statements into questions, negatives, imperatives, and other kinds of sentences.
Pregunta 19
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A psycholinguistic studies _______. She is interested in how children learn the meanings of bound morphemes, free morphemes, and sentences.
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phonology
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morphology
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semantics
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syntax
Pregunta 20
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Expansions and recasts are examples of
Pregunta 21
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Nativists believe in all of the following except:
Pregunta 22
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A scientist who believes that children who are biologically prepared to acquire language, who have conversations with adults who use child-directed speech, with a nervous system that gradually matures and predisposes them to develop similar language skils at about the same age is known as a(n)
Pregunta 23
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Infants begin cooing by age ___ month(s) and start to babble by age ___ months.
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1; 2-3
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2; 3-4
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2; 4-6
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4; 6-7
Pregunta 24
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Development during the __________ allows infants to discriminate speechlike sounds and become sensitive to a wider variety of phonemes than adults are.
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sensitive period
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phonemic period
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holophrase period
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prelinguistic period
Pregunta 25
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Which of the following is not one of the processing constraints that help toddlers figure out word meanings?
Pregunta 26
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During middle childhood and adolescence, children learn more about
Pregunta 27
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Rob has learned grammatical morphemes, such as -s for plurals and -ed for past tense. Occasionally he makes errors such as saying, "foots" and "broked." These errors are known as:
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overregularizations
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recasts
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expansions
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morphological extensions
Pregunta 28
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Recent research on bilingual education has found that two-way bilingual education programs
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improve the chid's language skills in both languages
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improve language in the child's primary language but do not help the child acquire the secondary language
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improve the child's secondary language but do not help the child acquire his or her primary language
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do not help the chld learn either language very well