Chapter 8 (Start of Final)

Question 1

What are the sources of language input for children in the school years?

Answer 1

More dependent on written language as well as spoken language

Question 2

Learning a new word from a parent or text

Answer 2

Direct instruction

Question 3

Learning a new word using contextual clues in both written and spoken forms to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words

Answer 3

Contextual abstraction

Question 4

Personal world knowledge; bringing all previous knowledge to learn a word

Answer 4

Pragmatic inferences

Question 5

Only use text information and having no background information to learn a word

Answer 5

Logical inferences

Question 6

Learning new words by analyzing lexical, inflectional, and derivational morphemes of unfamiliar words to infer meanings

Answer 6

Morphological analysis

Question 7

At what age are definitions categorical?

Answer 7

10

Question 8

What age will children form sentences with appropriate detail?

Answer 8

7

Question 9

Early definitions are _____ and _____

Answer 9

Descriptive and functional

Question 10

Experience with a word is directly related to the _____ of the definition

Answer 10

Quality

Question 11

Words sound alike and spelled the same

Answer 11

Homonyms

Question 12

Words sound alike; may be spelled alike or differently

Answer 12

Homophones

Question 13

Words spelled the same; may sound alike or different

Answer 13

Homographs

Question 14

What is an example of a homonym?

Answer 14

Bear and bear, duck and duck

Question 15

What is an example of a homophone?

Answer 15

to and two, shoe and shoo, duck and duck, bear and bare

Question 16

What is an example of a homograph?

Answer 16

to and too, duck and duck

Question 17

What is an example of an idiom?

Answer 17

He woke up on the wrong side of the bed; he gave me the cold shoulder

Question 18

What is an example of a simile?

Answer 18

Sitting like a bump on a log; the land is hard as a brick

Question 19

What is an example of a metaphor?

Answer 19

All the world’s a stage

Question 20

What is an example of irony/sarcasm?

Answer 20

What a beautiful day!

Question 21

Often say something that is non-literal but can literally happen

Answer 21

Idiom

Question 22

Comparing two things and using the word “like” or “as”

Answer 22

Simile

Question 23

Comparing two things but not using a comparative term such as “like” or “as”

Answer 23

Metaphor

Question 24

Pitch change to let someone know you are mocking something; usually it is something you are not intending to say

Answer 24

Irony/sarcasm