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Slater & Lewis: Introduction to Infant Development

Chapter 10

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Question 1

Infants utter their first words around:

a) 6 months of age

b) 8 months of age

c) 12 months of age

d) 15 months of age

Question 2

After 18 months infants acquire approximately:

a) 6 new words a day

b) 9 new words a day

c) 12 new words a day

d) 15 new words a day

Question 3

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

a) Semantics

b) Grammar

c) Syntax

d) Phonology

Question 4

Semantics refers to:

a) Learning word meanings

b) Knowledge of the rules of combining words in sentences

c) Learning to communicate with words

d) Learning new words

Question 5

Pragmatics is:

a) Understanding how communication works

b) Learning new words

c) Combining words in sentences

d) Sound differences between similar words

Question 6

Prosody is the:

a) Study of language use in practice

b) Tendency to hear sounds categorically

c) Melody and rhythms of language

d) Study of early word learning

Question 7

Subtle sound differences between similar sounds are:

a) Categorical percepts

b) Phonemic contrasts

c) Statistical learning

d) Transitional probabilities

Question 8

The High Amplitude Sucking Procedure is:

a) A means of feeding infants quickly

b) A way of investigating infants' ability to discriminate between sounds

c) A way of testing early word learning

d) A way of testing infants' ability to discriminate between bisyllabic words

Question 9

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

a) An ability to distinguish between different languages

b) A preference for the native language over others

c) An inability to distinguish between different languages

d) An ability to discriminate between all sounds used in all languages

Question 10

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

a) 2 months of age

b) 4 months of age

c) 6 months of age

d) 9 months of age

Question 11

Canonical or reduplicated babbling refers to:

a) Repetitions of the same speech sounds

b) Repetition of vowel sounds

c) Babbling with the hands

d) Sounds that resemble meaningful words

Question 12

The Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) was proposed by:

a) Piaget

b) Best

c) Jusczyk

d) Kuhl

Question 13

Statistical learning refers to:

a) Early mathematical knowledge

b) The perceptual magnet effect

c) Using regularities in speech to isolate words

d) Learning about stress patterns in speech

Question 14

Which word follows the predominant stress pattern of English?

a) Guitar

b) Surprise

c) Intend

d) Syntax

Question 15

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

a) Assume that words refer to individual entities

b) Assume that words refer to object parts

c) Assume that words refer to actions on objects

d) Assume that words refer to events

Question 16

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

a) Social pragmatic understanding

b) The "naming insight"

c) Categorical induction

d) Sensitivity to referential intent

Question 17

Syntactic bootstrapping is:

a) Understanding word order

b) Rapid learning of new words

c) Question comprehension

d) Using aspects of grammar in learning new words

Question 18

Syntax is:

a) Knowledge of how words and phrases can be combined

b) Study of word meanings

c) Subtle sound differences between similar words

d) Perceiving different phonemic categories

Question 19

Transitional probabilities are:

a) Repeating the same sounds over and over

b) The likelihood that one syllable will follow another

c) Knowledge of different word endings

d) Tendency to hear sounds categorically

Question 20

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

a) Adjectives

b) Word order

c) Nouns

d) Plurals

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