Language Development Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Language Development explores the processes by which humans acquire, comprehend, and use language from infancy through adolescence. The course examines the biological, cognitive, and social foundations of language learning, tracing milestones in phonology, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics. Students analyze theories of language acquisition, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variations, the role of caregivers and environment, as well as typical and atypical language development. Through case studies and current research findings, the course equips students to understand the complexities of how language evolves over time and the factors that influence linguistic growth.
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Language Development 4th Edition by Erika Hoff
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Language Development
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Q1) The dynamical systems theory (DST) is based on
A) the premise that language is a static system of knowledge in a dynamic culture.
B) the view that language emerges as a result of a series and number of interactions.
C) the outcomes of research on cognitive development.
D) theories related to the concept of the language acquisition device.
Answer: B
Q2) Studies of babies listening to nonsense syllables demonstrated that babies:
A) can distinguish phonological differences in utterances.
B) can process patterns of sounds in utterances.
C) evelop rules for receptive communication.
D) All of these answers are true.
Answer: D
Q3) Cognitivism refers to the study of: (WWW)
A) changes in children's mental language.
B) internal mental processes and how they relate to behavior.
C) language development.
D) psychological developmental stages.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Biological Bases of Language Development
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Q1) The ERP, or event-related brain potential, method of studying the brain is used:
A) to examine lesions, or localized areas of damaged brain tissue.
B) to provide a unique explanation of how each hemisphere of the brain functions.
C) when placing electrodes on the scalp and monitoring the electrical potential of neurons.
D) to wave more accurate results with infants or young children than with adults.
Answer: C
Q2) Studies of the genetics of language impairment indicate that A) elements of language development are genetically determined.
B) speech development is determined by a complex set of genetic and molecular biological features.
C) the ease and speed of language development have a strong genetic foundation.
D) All of these answers.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Communicative Development: Foundations and Functions of Language
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Q1) Research on pragmatic development suggests that:
A) the first communicative functions expressed by children are similar to adult's language.
B) communicative functions develop in the first few years just as language develops.
C) children use single-word utterances to express language functions.
D) children use gestures and sounds together when communicating.
Answer: B
Q2) Illocutionary refers to:
A) communication to a listener that is produced with intention .
B) a phase of communication in early childhood development.
C) communication to a listener that is produced without intention.
D) communication that occurs in infanthood.
Answer: D
Q3) Intentionality refers to:
A) using language to create a belief in the listener's mind.
B) children's prelinguistic communicative behavior.
C) automatic responses to infants' internal states.
D) the nature of children's communication at birth.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Phonological Development: Learning the Sounds of Language
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Q1) Children learning language within the same linguistic community:
A) show little individual difference in the sounds that they learn.
B) reflect individual preference to produce particular kinds of intonation, phonemes, or reduplication in their babbling.
C) demonstrate similarities in how they select target words to learn.
D) learn language at similar rates and patterns at same ages.
Q2) Using infant-directed speech is significant to the language acquisition process because:
A) infants show a preference for rhythmic and stress in listening to speech.
B) emphasizing stress or prosodic patterns provide cues for infants to isolate words and grammatical patterns.
C) infants' hearing and auditory skills are in early stages of development.
D) infant's learning process is in an early stage of development.
Q3) Children approximately 12 months old use consistent sound sequences that do not sound like adult words, but represent broad meanings. These are called:
A) canonical forms
B) proto words
C) real words
D) jargon
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Chapter 5: Lexical Development: Learning Words
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Q1) Research indicates factors that influence individual differences in lexical development include:
A) the number of times the caregiver exposes the child to labels, provides context and the child's developmental level.
B) how the caregiver provides context to the child, the child's use of analytical skills, and the child's ability to take risks.
C) the social and developmental levels of the child.
D) the caregiver's skills in providing context to learn new words and the child's developmental level.
Q2) Gathercole and Baddeley (1989) showed vocabulary size might be related to:
A) family size
B) age of first word
C) articulation abilities
D) phonological memory
Q3) Review the text in this chapter and identify support for the view that children's lexical development is guided by properties of speech they hear. Identify the researchers and provide citations for your discussion.
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Chapter 6: The Development of Syntax and Morphology:
Learning the Structure of Language
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Q1) Discuss the arguments of continuity vs. discontinuity of grammatical development.
Q2) Morphemes are:
A) lexical items.
B) the smallest units of meaning.
C) a sentence unit.
D) embedded in words.
Q3) Children's comprehension of structured speech is:
A) measured in terms of MLU by most researchers.
B) acquired on the same continuum as the production of speech.
C) difficult to measure because of the nature of children's response to stimuli.
D) examined with a broad range of measurements.
Q4) The most common form of passives used by children is:
A) the use the verb "got".
B) to duplicate adult use of passives.
C) used by the age of 2 ½ .
D) the use the verb "to be."
Q5) Describe the meaning of semantic bootstrapping, compare and contrast literature on the significance of it in child language development.
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Q6) Describe the stages of grammatical development in early multiword utterances.
Chapter 7: Language, Culture, and Cognition in Development
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Q1) Language as a source of cognitive-advancing information refers to:
A) the study of language and cognitive development.
B) increasing vocabulary to advance cognitive development.
C) an hypothesis about the role of language in cognitive development.
D) None of these statements are true.
Q2) Identify and briefly describe the main points in the text regarding the cultural influences on language development.
Q3) Questions about how ________________________ are central to the topic of language and culture
A) culture influences thought
B) thought influences culture
C) cognitive development and language are related
D) All of these choices are true.
Q4) What does the "Theory Theory" mean and how does it explain that language and cognition develop in tandem to each other?
Q5) Describe research regarding the influence of language on the development of thought?
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Q6) What are the arguments supporting the hypothesis that language and thought are entirely independent of each other?
Chapter 8: Childhood Bilingualism
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Q1) Studies of speech perception for infants who are bilingual indicate that they distinguish:
A) between two languages.
B) in the same way as monolingual children.
C) differently than monolingual children.
D) if the languages have the same prosody.
Q2) Early studies on bilingual development were:
A) conducted in Europe.
B) focused on children with bilingual parents.
C) based on diary records of a linguist's child.
D) carried out in the 1920's.
Q3) Two topics in the study of the bilingual brain are:
A) brain damage and functioning of the bilingual individual.
B) the effect of brain damage on bilinguals and age of acquisition of language.
C) age of acquisition of language and neurological differences.
D) None of these answers are true.
Q4) Identify the different ways that second language acquisition is different from first language acquisition and how outcomes are different for the learner.
Q5) Discuss how cultural perspective influences bilingual language development.
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Chapter 9: Language in School Years
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Q1) Phonologic and phonemic awareness are:
A) developed at different ages.
B) acquired simultaneously, but in different levels of accuracy.
C) acquired at a young age, but phonemic awareness is not fully developed until after the age of five.
D) related and build upon each other.
Q2) When young children are at the early stage of discourse-level development, they have difficulties using:
A) cohesive devices such as "and," "because," and "so."
B) pronouns
C) descriptives
Q3) Cultural mismatches between teachers and students in the classroom influence:
A) Student responses to teacher expectations.
B) How teachers treat students' incorrect responses.
C) Teacher opinion of student skill development.
D) All of the answers are true.
Q4) Describe research on how children acquire phonological awareness in different languages.
Q5) Describe how developing speaking and listening skills relates to research on oral language and schooling.
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Chapter 10: Language Development in Special Populations
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Q1) The oralist method developed:
A) in response to hearing parents' communicative needs.
B) in order to teach children to use speech reading for comprehension and spoken language for language expression.
C) as a result of few people's knowledge of sign language.
D) None of these answers are true.
Q2) Research on language acquisition for deaf children demonstrates that deaf children: A) require special education.
B) acquire language when provided access to communication, whether through oral/auditory input, sign language, or a combination.
C) are deprived of language.
D) have lower intelligence scores.
Q3) Tell how research on atypical language with individuals who have mental retardation informs the study of language acquisition. Discuss the implications for applied research.
Q4) Compare and contrast language development in individuals who are lower functioning and those who are higher functioning with autism.
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