Children acquire a __________ before they are capable of making verbal sounds.
linguistic system
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What is semantics?
The study of the meaning of morphemes, words, phrases and sentences.
100
By the age of two how many words are in a child's vocabulary?
1,000 to 2,000 words
100
What is the Mutual Exclusive Theory?
The assumption that only one label can be applied to each object in early word learning.
100
________ are critical for understanding, organizing, and identifying things we encounter in the world.
Categories
200
All children acquire language _________.
the same way.
200
When a child is developing semantics, they tend to _______ words.
overextend
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Their new vocabulary explosion primarily consists of ________.
Verbs, adjectives, and new nouns.
200
An objection to the theorem is that only children _______ were tested.
2 ½ years or older
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What does it mean to categorize an object taxonomically?
As a member of a kind of thing.
(e.g., an apple is like an orange, in that both are fruit)
300
Children's "errors" _______ be corrected.
should not
300
What is overextension?
The process where a child will overextend the meaning of a word on the basis of similarities of shape, sound, and size.
300
Their vocabulary grows, and do does their understanding of _______.
Grammar.
300
The Mutual Exclusive Theory enables children to successfully determine an object without the speaker pointing to or otherwise directing the child’s attention to it.
True or False?
True.
300
What does it mean to categorize an object thematically?
Ss interacting with or being part of the same scene or context as other items.
(e.g., an apple grows on a tree)