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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the smallest form of language that can carry meaning?
Phoneme
Morpheme
Grammar
Babbling
Critical Periods Hypothesis
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which theory says that if a child does not learn a language of any kind by the age of 7, they will never be able to master a language?
Insight
Intuition
Phoneme
Morpheme
Critical Periods
- 3. Multiple Choice
The rock musician was hit with a rotten egg while performing his latest hit song. The fact that you can recognize two different meanings for the word “hit” in the preceding sentence demonstrates the importance of
syntax.
semantics.
morphemes.
prototypes.
linguistic determinism.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Children begin to demonstrate that they know how to put words in a sensible order during the ________ stage.
babbling
syntactic
two-word
three-word
phonetic
- 5. Multiple ChoiceIn English, it is appropriate to refer to “a pretty bird,” but not to “a bird pretty.” This best illustrates the importance of:syntax.semantics.morphemes.phonemes.
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich language theorist would have been most likely to emphasize that children master the rule for forming the past tense of regular verbs like "push" before they learn common past tense constructions of irregular verbs like "go"?B. F. SkinnerBenjamin Lee WhorfNoam ChomskyHermann Ebbinghaus
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhen the word “oat” is changed to the word “boat,” the number of:Phonemes increases, but the number of morphemes stays the samePhonemes and morphemes are both increasedPhonemes and morphemes both stay the samePhonemes stays the same, but the number of morphemes increases
- 8. Multiple ChoiceA, an and ill are all examples of:PhonemesMorphemesSyntaxGrammar
- 9. Multiple ChoiceThe rules most directly involved in permitting a person to derive meaning from words and sentences are rules of:SyntaxGrammarPhonemic structureSemantics
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe child who says “milk gone” is engaging in ____________. This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of ____________.Babbling; syntaxTelegraphic speech; syntaxBabbling; semanticsTelegraphic speech; semantics
- 11. Multiple ChoiceSkinner and other behaviorists have argued that language development is the result of:ImitationReinforcementAssociationAll of the above
- 12. Multiple ChoiceIn the words “helped” and “called,” the “ed” ending is a(n)prototype.morpheme.syntax.algorithm.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which structural component of language is the smallest unit of distinctive sound?
Phoneme
Morpheme
Semantics
Syntax
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which brain area controls the expression of language?
Broca’s area
Wernicke’s area
Temporal lobe
Auditory cortex
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