Exam 10: Early Language Acquisition

The (intonation) pitch used in child-directed speech:

Comparisons of children acquiring sign language and speech suggest that:

Nelson (1973) found that ________ and ________ were two distinct strategies children tended to use for learning language:

Children babble more often:

The best example of the agent and action semantic relation in two-word speech is:

The majority of profoundly deaf children learn ASL from:

Most of children's early words:

Children who acquire language using an expressive strategy tend to:

Children who acquire language using a referential strategy tend to:

The "positional" interpretation of children's multi-word utterances is that children:

If a child said dada when she heard her father come in, what semantic relation is involved?

The fis phenomenon refers to the observation that:

According to the text, the most likely reason why children make phonological errors is that:

A child who says fweet instead of sweet would be illustrating the phonological process called:

The study by DeCasper and Spence (1986), in which mothers-to-be read a Dr. Seuss book aloud during the last few weeks of their pregnancies, found evidence for:

In Eimas et al's (1971) study, 1- and 4-month-old infants responded to syllables whose initial consonant varied in its VOT value. The results of the study showed that:

A child's use of idiomorphs is important because it indicates that:

The Werker and Tees (1984) study suggested that our ability to perceive phonemic distinctions:

Meier and Newport (1990) estimate that ______ of deaf children are born to deaf parents.

Personalized words that children invent and use in highly idiosyncratic ways are called: