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- 1. Multiple Choice
What does the first stage of language acquisition include?
grammatically accurate sentences
babbling, cooing, biological noises
one-word phrase
two-word phrases
- 2. Multiple Choice
When children begin to form sentences but omit function words, this is called:
Holophrastic
Two-word
Telegraphic
Multi-word
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who devised the Innatism theory?
Bruner
Piaget
Skinner
Chomsky
- 4. Multiple Choice
Who devised the Behaviourist theory?
Piaget
Bruner
Skinner
Chomsky
- 5. Multiple Choice
Why devised the Interactionist Theory?
Piaget
Bruner
Skinner
Chomsky
- 6. Multiple Choice
Out of the average child's first 50 words, what will be the most common word class?
Adjectives
Nouns
Verbs
Determiners
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is substitution?
The replacement of word or sound with an easier to pronounce word or sound
Omitting the final consonant sound .eg do(g); cu(p)
Repeating a syllable eg. mama; dada
A determiner in place of a noun
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which theory suggests that children learn through imitating adults?
Behaviourism
Interactionism
Innatism
Constructivist
- 9. Multiple Choice
This theory claims that children's minds are not blank slates
Nativism
Behaviourism
Cognitive
Interactionism
- 10. Multiple Choice
We acquire a second language the same way we acquire our mother tongue. (just guess!)
True
False
- 11. Multiple Choice
LAD stands for
Language Acquisition Support System
Language Attention Device
Language Acquisition Device
Language and Discourse
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is parentese?
The language caregivers and adults use around a baby
Mother Teresa's new charity
The language only a mother or father speaks to a baby
High rising terminal
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is the conclusion about the RIGHT theory of language acquisition?
Only interactionism is accepted
There is only one correct theory
The theories are all incorrect
They all play an important role in the explanation of how language is acquired
- 14. Multiple Choice
Behaviourism and Interactionism are both:
Nature theories
Nurture theories
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which theory places significant importance on parentese?
Innatism
Interactionism
Behaviourism
Cognitive
- 16. Multiple Choice
What does the 'fis' phenomenon demonstrate?
Children's phonological ability is ahead of their cognitive ability
Children demonstrate awareness of the difference between their pronunciation and an adult's pronunciation
That children know how to pluralise
Children's morphological ability is negated by their syntactical ability
- 17. Multiple Choice
The wug test supports
Chomsky's theory
Skinner's theory
Bruner's theory
Piaget's theory
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which theorist coined a new set of functions for children?
Piaget
Vygotsky
Berko
Halliday
- 19. Multiple Choice
"If I knowed the last bug I eated would be the last bug I eated, I woulda eated it slower" is an example of:
semantic undergeneralisation
morphological undergeneralisation
semantic overgeneralisation
morphological overgeneralisation
- 20. Multiple Choice
'Cat' being the name for the family pet, but not for other cats is known as:
semantic underextension
morphological undergeneralisation
semantic overgeneralisation
morphological overextension
- 21. Multiple Choice
Single words or phrases that convey more complex messages are known as:
paralinguistic features
holophrases
telephrases
phrasology
- 22. Multiple Choice
how many morphemes are in the verb "walked"
1
2
3
4
- 23. Multiple Choice
Is the morpheme -s in 'birds'
inflectional
derivational
- 24. Multiple Choice
The nonsense word bliply in the sentence "The plogs glorped bliply" must be which word class?
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
Verb
- 25. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a plosive stop?
t
s
f
h
- 26. Multiple Choice
Is mmm a nasal or oral sound?
Nasal
Oral
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is voiceless?
z
k
g
v
- 28. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is an example of a child modifying consonants to simplify pronunciation?
gog
rabbit
turtle
cat
- 29. Multiple Choice
Select the sound that a child under the age of 6 might have trouble pronouncing
/tw/ as in twin
/dʒ/ as in jigsaw
/k/ cat
/str/ as in street
- 30. Multiple Choice
Genie Wiley was not able to produce grammatically accurate sentences. Her language level proves (choose 2 answers)
the critical theory hypothesis
Chomsky's innate theory
Bruner's interactionist theory
the wug test
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