Reference no: EM13285909
1. Speaking and walking are considered similar in the sense that one cannot prevent a child from acquiring the ability to speak or walk.
A) True
B) False
2. Language learning relies exclusively on imitation.
A) True
B) False
3. All children raised in normal conditions, go through the same stages of language acquisition regardless of their geographical origin.
A) True
B) False
4. Baby talk is the simplified way in which parents speak when adressing their baby or young child.
A) True
B) False
5. Boys tend to develop language earlier than girls.
A) True
B) False
6. Providing extensive language input to a baby or young child may overwhelm him/her and cause a delay in his/her acquisition of language.
A) True
B) False
7. Children do not respond very well to formal corrections of their speech.
A) True
B) False
8. Genetics does not influence the progression of children learning their first language.
A) True
B) False
9. Errors children make are proof of acquisition.
A) True
B) False
10. Children start to eliminate from their speech the sounds which do not exist in the language of their parents starting at the age of 2.
A) True
B) False
11. Deaf children of deaf signing parents follow different stages of language acquisition in the development of signing that children learning to speak.
A) True
B) False
12. "allgone" is an example of a holophrastic sentence.
A) True
B) False
13. Children learn how to speak by storing sentences in their mental dictionary.
A) True
B) False
14. Before the age of 2 years, children learn a new word every two hours.
A) True
B) False
15. Telegraphic speech is the name of the stage following the babbling stage of language development.
A) True
B) False
16. The human mind is "pre-wired" to learn language.
A) True
B) False
17. Holophrastic sentences are used by children during the one-word stage of language development.
A) True
B) False
18. Babbling constitutes a prelinguistic stage consisting of involuntary responses to basic needs or feelings such as hunger or discomfort.
A) True
B) False
19. Infants are born with a mind like a blank slate in terms of learning their first language.
A) True
B) False
20. Infants have the ability to distinguish sounds in their first language that adults, who are native speakers of that language, cannot differentiate.
A) True
B) False