Language Development and Phonological Skills

Which of the following receptive skill models best solves various theoretical problems, including that of parsing (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 68)?

• The cohort models

• The neighborhood activation models (NAM)

• The connectionist models

• None of these

Children who lack phonological processing skills have particular problems when they learn to read (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 92).

• True
• False

Children between ages 6 and 8 learn...(Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 109)

• new vocabulary rapidly

• nearly 4 words a day

• nearly 7 words a day

• nearly 12 words a day

A child who calls all four legged mammals "dog" is...(Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 112-113)

• underextending

• overextending

• making whole-object assumptions

• using TOM (theory of mind)

It is still possible to be a skilled reader even with limited vocabulary (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 133).

• True
• False

Multi-Select: English grammatical knowledge includes knowledge of:

(Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 139)

• closed class words

• open class words

• inflections

• temporal order

Students use grammar when they write, but not as much when they read (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 146).

• True
• False

Which type of learning theory believes that they have found a way to explain regularities and novelties in linguistic behavior without appealing to constructs such as grammatical rules or abstract grammatical categories (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 168)?

• Nativist

• Constructivist

• Emergentist

• Linguist

Many children with underdeveloped vocabulary also have underdeveloped grammar skills (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 172).

• True
• False

Children seem to progress from recognizing whole words to recognizing smaller portions of words (Byrnes & Wasik, 2019, p. 85).

• True

• False