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| 7891179397 | Intentional sounds generated by infants and pre-toddlers that lack specific meaning; practice in creating specific sounds is | Babbling | 0 | |
| 7891195006 | That humans have an innate capacity for acquiring language reflects the ___________ theory of language aquisition | Nativist | 1 | |
| 7891214065 | Research generally supports the notion that the younger a person leans another language, the more proficient the he/she becomes. Thie reason for this includes | Greater plasticity | 2 | |
| 7891242892 | In a recent article, I read the following phrase: "Include Your Children When Baking Cookies" which shows how even though syntax can be correct, meaning is influenced by | Context | 3 | |
| 7891248668 | Chomsky believed that our ability to quickly learn language is natural and due to | An innate function of the brain | 4 | |
| 7891259027 | I need to be aware and careful about what I say around my granddaughters; that is, use appropriate words and good grammar. This is because of a ________ theory of language development | Behavioral | 5 | |
| 7891268446 | One-word utterances which convey meaning. For example, the word "food" might be used to mean "Give me food" and the word "up" could convey "Pick me up". | Holophase | 6 | |
| 7891279197 | A foreign visitor to the United States asked a taxi driver, "Can you please a ride to the airport me give?" This visitor, apparently, has not yet mastered the _________ of the English language | Syntax | 7 | |
| 7891287479 | Knowledge that we have and that we know that other people have, and nonverbal expressions such as fcial expressions, postures, gestures,a dn tone of vioce, are all examples of: | Contextual information | 8 | |
| 7891295764 | Suffixes and prefixes are examples of | Morphemes | 9 | |
| 7901617635 | When, for example, and orly learner forms the past tense for "run" as "runned" instead of "ran" and for "goose" as "gooses" instead of "geese" | Overgeneralization | 10 | |
| 7901648574 | The theory of language acquisition which focuses upon how language influences the way we think | Linguistic relativity hypothesis | 11 | |
| 7901664791 | A _________ is the smallest unit of sound that makes a meaningful difference in a language | Phoneme | 12 | |
| 7901672249 | Language production is located in __________ area while language comprehension is located in ____________ area | Broca's: Wernicke's | 13 | |
| 7901686401 | Syntax refers to the: | Orderly arrangement of words into grammatically correct sentences | 14 | |
| 7901701912 | Words do not posses fixed meanings but change their interpretation as a function of the context in which they are spoken. This refers to | Contextual information | 15 | |
| 7901711471 | A ___________ is a string of one or more ___________ that makes up the smallest units of meaning in a language | Morpheme: phoneme | 16 | |
| 7901726573 | The following is a holophrase a typical two-year old would say: | "Dada" | 17 | |
| 7901732851 | About how many phonemes are there in the English language | 45 | 18 | |
| 7901750103 | There must be at least some truth to the idea that language is learned from experiece rather that just being born with it because | Children learn the language that they hear spoken around them rather than some other language | 19 | |
| 7901769964 | How many phonemes does the word "lot" have | 3 | 20 | |
| 7901781662 | The English language requires that each sentence have a noun and a verb, each of which may be modified by adjectives and adverbs. This refers to: | Syntax | 21 | |
| 7901793521 | Noam Chomsky argues that human brains contain a language acquisition module that includes a universal grammar that underlines all human language | Nativist theory | 22 | |
| 7901831088 | By the time children are 2 years old, they have a vocabulary of several hundred words, and by kindergarten their vocabularies have increased to several thousand words. By fifth grade most children know about ____________ words | 50,000 | 23 |
