Milestones
At what age do babies do the following:react to loud sounds,smiles to familiar voices, & quiets to familiar speakers, begins to smile at familiar people, begins to make cooing sounds
a. birth - 3 months
b. 4-6 months
c. 7-12 months
A. birth- 3 months
At what age do children understand simple 2- step directions, simple opposites, begins to put 3 words together, asks why questions, and uses simple prepositions?
a. 1-2 years
b. 2-3 years
c. 3-4 years
B. 2-3 years
True or false Brown's Stage 4 (35-40 months) includes the following morphemes: Articles, regular past tense third person regular present tense and third person irregular
False: third person irregular is in stage 5.
What is presbyphonia?
Age related voice changes that may include:
weaker breathier voice, more breaks/stops, higher pitch in men, lower pitch in women, reduced loudness, tremor, laryngeal tension
Which of the following do not belong in the Use of Language? ( i.e. how we use language)
a. Syntax or word order
b. Pragmatics: social rules
c. matching language and situation
A. Syntax or word order
At what age do babies recognize changes in vocal tone, eyes move toward sounds, and responds to toys with noise. Babble and coos during play, sounds from various emotions, begins to laugh?
a. 1-2 years
b. 7-12 months
c. 4-6 months
B. 4-6 months
At what age do children understand order words (1st, 2nd) understand time words, and follow multi step directions?
a. 3-4 years
b. 6 and up
c. 4-5 years
c. 4-5 years
True or false: Brown's stage 5 of grammatical morphemes include, third person irregular, uncontractible auxiliary, contractible copula and contractible auxiliary
True! examples include-
Third person irregular: doggy DOES tricks
uncontractible auxiliary: He WAS jumping
contractible copula: SHE's happy
contractible auxiliary: SHE's dancing
What is presbyopia?
age related vision loss i.e. farsightedness with treatment of reading glasses
What is the Nativist-Generative View (Chomsky), and is this view nature or nurture?
Bonus 1. : What are are the limitations of the nativist view?
Bonus 2: What are some evidences for this view?
Nature, Language is innate and prespecified, we are born with Lang. Acq. and lang is seperate from other cognitive systems.
Bonus 1: strict focus on syntax; no single grammar to account for all languages, & no evidence that children need adult rules to acquire lang.
Bonus 2: deaf babies babble, Sp& L deficit may be inheritable, children follow seq. milestones, lang learned w/o grammar rules and we are born with LAD.
At what age do babies recognize and turn to their name, comprehension of simple words, plays games, shows objects by pointing and uses gestures?
a. 4-6 months
b. birth- 3 months
c. 7-12 months
c. 7-12 months
In Browns stage 1 ( 12-26 months) how many words are in the child's vocabulary with communicative intent?
a. 50 words
b. 75 words
c. 100 words
A. 50 words
True or False MLU stands for Mean Length Utterance
TRUE
What is the difference between receptive and expressive language?
receptive= lang. comprehension, i.e. listening & reading, develops before expression, understanding of lang. + vocab, questions, concepts and directions
expressive=lang. production, i.e. speaking and writing, expressing wants + needs, words, nonverbal comm, gestures, pointing, expressions and grammar
What is the Constructivist-Interactionist view and is it nature or nurture?
Bonus: what is the evidence of this view?
Nurture- Environment guides language, no processor in brain specific for language, can't separate lang from cog. systems.
Bonus: operant conditioning
At what age do babies begin to put two words together, ask simple questions, and follow 1- step commands?
a. 1-2 years
b. 4-6 months
c. 7-12 months
A. 1-2 years
In Browns stage 2 (27-30 months), what grammatical morphemes are not used?
a. possessive's
b. present progressive- ing
c. regular plurals
A. possessives
What is presbycusis?
Age related hearing loss
What does FORM of language include?
a. phonology ( speech sounds)
b. syntax (word order)
c. morphology (word endings)
d. A and B
e. all of the above
E. All of the above
What is the cognitive theory created by Piaget?
Children learn lang. like other cog. skil;s (concepts first then lang), lang is made possible by cog. and other intellectual processes. observe child in play to determine the level of representational thought.
At what age do children understand simple concepts, respond to name( from the other room), puts up to 4 words together and uses simple pronouns and some plurals?
a. 4-5 years
b. 3-4 years
c. 2-3 years
B. 3-4 years
a. irregular past tense
b. articles (a, the)
c. regular plurals
d. Regular past tense
e. B &C
f. B &D
E. B&C
What is presbyphagia?
decreased strength, and sensation (taste), slower swallow response, and laryngeal penetration is more common
True or False: Content of language includes semantics, vocabulary, and how word meanings link.
True
What is the Semantic Theory created by Filmore & Bloom?
The interpretation of messages requires consideration of meaning & acquisition stimulated by the child's desire to communicate and knowledge