Child Language Acquisition Mega Revision Quiz

It states that the first few years of life constitute the time during which language develops.

• Motherese

• Critical age hypothesis

• Innateness hypothesis

Children are biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in just the same way that other biological functions develop.

• Motherese

• Critical age hypothesis

• Innateness hypothesis

It points out humans are born with the capacity to speak.

• Overgeneralization

• Overextension

• Language Acquisition Device

Adults make formal adjustments to help children to speak

• Reinforcement theory

• Imitation theory

• Child-directed speech

What does Chomsky believe?

• Children are born without the predisposition to learn language

• Children are born with predisposition to learn language

• Children never understand language

True or False: According to Chomsky language is developed through watching and hearing the language be spoken by people in the child’s environment.

• True

• False

What is LAD?

• A good friend

• Language Acquisition Device

• Language and Development

According to Nelson, to what word class do the majority of the childs first words belong?

• abstract nouns

• concrete nouns

• dynamic verbs

• pronouns

• prepositions

Which is NOT a feature of "motherese" ?

• loud and low intonation

• simple sentences

• repetition

• a speaking voice higher in pitch

With the possible exception of crying, what is the first stage of language development?

• babbling

• one word stage

• telegraphic stage

• cooing