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Slater & Lewis: Introduction to Infant Development

Chapter 10

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Question 1

Infants utter their first words around:

Question 2

After 18 months infants acquire approximately:

Question 3

Learning the speech sounds of the native language is known as:

Question 4

Semantics refers to:

Question 5

Pragmatics is:

Question 6

Prosody is the:

Question 7

Subtle sound differences between similar sounds are:

Question 8

The High Amplitude Sucking Procedure is:

Question 9

The suggestion that infants are born as "universal language perceivers" refers to:

Question 10

Infants have learned the meanings of some common words, like "mommy" and "daddy" by:

Question 11

Canonical or reduplicated babbling refers to:

Question 12

The Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) was proposed by:

Question 13

Statistical learning refers to:

Question 14

Which word follows the predominant stress pattern of English?

Question 15

The "Whole Object" bias refers to the tendency to:

Question 16

Using known words to guess how new ones might be extended to whole categories is:

Question 17

Syntactic bootstrapping is:

Question 18

Syntax is:

Question 19

Transitional probabilities are:

Question 20

The "Wug test" examined children's understanding of: