Exam 7: Language

Prior to age three,children lack a full understanding of what it means for language to be correct.

Once children reach seven years of age,patterns of brain activation related to language are

Communication in situations that require the speaker to describe an object to a listener or to evaluate the effectiveness of a message is called

Seven-month-old Tamara has begun to say things like "bababababa" over and over again.Her vocalizations are called

Older children are more capable of polite address than younger children.

Tyrone is participating in an experiment in which he has to find the objects the researcher names.The three objects on the table are an apple,a balloon,and a garlic press.Tyrone has never seen a garlic press before.When the researcher asks Tyrone to find the "glipka," Tyrone points to the garlic press because ________.

One of the first steps that ten-month-old Molly will take in learning a language is to acquire the ________ of the language.Molly will probably accomplish this task by making various speech sounds and various combinations of sounds until she learns to speak.

The amount of time infants spend in joint attention with their caregivers predicts

According to linguistic theory,as children are exposed to a specific language,a process called ________ takes place,whereby "switches" for the grammatical rules for that language are set.

The patterns of intonation,stress,and rhythm that communicate meaning in speech are called

Define pragmatics.What role do parents play in the acquisition of pragmatics?

At three years of age,some children will modify their speech according to pragmatics.Therefore,three-year-old Casey is likely to be most polite to

The fact that most infants,regardless of their culture,begin to coo and babble at similar ages adds further evidence that

What is the linguistic perspective of language acquisition?

Eileen was playing with her daughter Alice,and during the course of their play,they had several conversations.Eileen would always ask her daughter questions that required some response from Alice,such as,"You like this doll,don't you?" or "Can you tell me why this doll is your favorite?" This type of interaction is usually called

In what ways can a language socialize children toward its cultural values and goals? Provide examples.

Taxonomic constraint refers to children's tendency to assume that a new word labels an entire object,specifically its form.

What is the relationship between receptive and productive language in early childhood?

What is infant-directed speech,and how does it facilitate language acquisition?

When Felix was younger,he would talk to himself while playing with his trucks,giving instructions about what he was doing or going to do.Felix still appears to play with his trucks in the same organized manner,but he no longer talks out loud while he is playing.This suggests that Felix is