Exam 11: Later Language Acquisition

According to Brown and Cazden (1973), a child was considered to have acquired a morpheme (such as /ed/ to indicate past tense):

Which of the following does NOT appear to influence the order of acquisition of grammatical morphemes?

When asked to name a long word, children 4-5 years old might respond with a word such as train. This demonstrates that children:

Shatz and Gelman (1973) found that four-year-olds tended to simplify their speech when talking to:

Language interference tends to be less when:

In the sentence I want to go home, go home is:

Gleitman, Gleitman, and Shipley (1972) found that children's first attempts to judge the acceptability of sentences focused on:

Flege (1991) examined sounds that are hardest and easiest for second language (L2) learners to pronounce. He found that L2 learners do ______ on sounds that are very different from those in their native language, and ________with those that are moderately similar.

The words sand, mud, and air are:

Metalinguistic skills appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of reading, particularly the awareness of:

Brown's (1973) study of grammatical morphemes found that the _____ morpheme was the earliest acquired.

In general, studies have found that children's bilingualism:

Williams (1980) examined the acquisition of the Spanish distinction between /p/ and /b/ in a group of native speakers of Spanish learning English as a second language. Williams found that the Spanish speakers:

The use of a regular morpheme in a word that is irregular, such as goed, is referred to as a(n):

Cross-linguistic studies have revealed:

A form of discourse that children do not experience outside of school is:

Rozin et al (1974) showed kindergarten children short words such as mow, and long words such as motorcycle. _____% of the children were able to identify the short word.

In observing children's acquisition of genres, Hicks (1990, 1991) found that children ________ more often when telling stories as opposed to recounting news events.

For preschool children, the process of segmenting words into syllables (for example, hos-pi-tal) _____ the process of segmenting syllables into phonemes (for example, b-a-ll).