CAPITULO 3-QUIZ

The Spanish-speaking parents of a nine-year old

bilingual child report that their child communicates in Spanish with complete utterances and has a good vocabulary in comparison to other children in the neighborhood. Their concern is that the child interrupts

their conversations and has not learned social rules that are important within the family community. Testing confirms similar problems in English-speaking settings. The SLP would most likely recommend that therapy focus on which of the following language areas?

• Syntax

• Morphology

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

The stages of Piaget´s development that are most crucial to language development are:

• Concrete operation and formal operations

  
  

• Concrete operations and preoperational

• Sensorimotor and preoperational

• Preoperational and concrete operation

Which of the following indicates that a 12-month-old child is in the holophrastic stage?

• A child says “eh” and reaches for her bottle

• A child points to a picture and says “was dad”

• A child points to her eyes in response to “show me eyes”

• A child finishes her drink and says “duce” indicating “I finish my juice”

• A child points to the cat and says kitty

“Could you please pass the salt” in an example of

• Sarcasm

• Direct speech act

• Indirect speech act

• Idiom

• Presupposition

Kiesha is an 18 month-old who is developing typically. In the past six months,Kiesha has slowly added more words to her lexicon. About how many words is she expected to use?

• 10

• 25

• 50

• 100

• 200

Consider the following interaction:

Child1; what are you building?

Child 2: A tower

This is an example of which of the following linguistic features?

• Deixis

• Ellipsis

• Fast-mapping

• Anaphora

Which theory of language development focuses on reinforcement in speech development?

• Behaviorist.

  
  

• Natural phonology.

• Generative phonology.

• Structuralist.

Which theory of language development is associated with the belief that language is a social phenomenon?

• A. Interaction placement theory.

• Advanced learning theory.

• Social interactionist theory.

• Cognitive development theory.

• Generativist theory

A child is evaluated as having deficits in the use of both regular and irregular past tense forms. Remediation will most likely be targeted at which of the following?

• Social cognition

  
  

• Morphology

• Gestural communication

• Thematic roles

Of the following, which best defines phonological awareness?

• A metalinguistic ability that includes awareness of different levels of the speech sound system, such as word boundaries, syllables, rhyming, phoneme segmenting and blending.

• The conscious awareness that words are made of smaller segments of speech, which can be represented with letters

• The rule system in a language that governs how phonemes are sequenced to make words

• The use of letters and letter combinations to represent phonemes in an orthography

• The prosodic features of speech, such as tone, stress, rhythm, intonation.