SHS 320 Week 2 Questions

In order to be considered language, the message must be said out loud using spoken words.

• True

• False

A 2-year-old just learned the word ‘Zoom’ and said, “ Mommy no Zoom!” Her parents are certain she’s never heard that exact sentence before, but she was still able to say it. Which unique feature of language does this example best support?

• Language is symbolic (has ‘semanticity’)

• Language offers ‘displacement'

• Language is generative (has ‘productivity’)

Studies are interested in the speech discrimination of children and the ways in which these abilities may aid language learning.

• Speech Perception

• Language Comprehension

Your best friend is joking about the party last weekend when they run into their Statistics professor. They immediately stop using ‘slang’ and address the professor formally. This is an example of:

• Language Competence

• Morphology

• Communicative Competence

Baby Benji says “poon” for the word “spoon” at snack time. This difference in pronunciation best refers to which part of his language system?

• Phonology

• Semantics

• Morphology

• Syntax

Baby Benji sees a cat running across the sidewalk and says “doggie!” This difference in language best refers to which part of his language system?

• Phonology

• Semantics

• Pragmatics

• Syntax

Which is considered the social aspect of language?

• Semantics

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Pragmatics

A baby’s first words would be considered a ______, and the baby’s developing brain that helped them learn and store a new word in their lexicon (mental vocabulary) is a _______.

• Milestone; mechanism

• Mechanism; milestone

Parents should be worried if one of their younger child doesn’t meet milestones by the same age as their older sibling. ​

• True

• False

Parents should not wait to seek help for their child if they think they are delayed.

• True

• False