CH. 3 - Lang. Development in Children

Question 1

“red crayon” is ____ + ______

Answer 1

attribute + entity

Question 2

things parents can do for infants 1-10 months old to successfully interact w/ their baby (“infant lang stimulation”)

Answer 2

in terms of infant lang stimulation, best use child-directed speech characterized by higher pitch and greater pitch fluctuations. Increase baby’s rudimentary turn-taking skills

Question 3

example of an utterance in which the child is using ‘recurrence’

Answer 3

“more cookie”

Question 4

example of a sentence using an embedded form

Answer 4

The boy [who got the haircut] looks nice. Embedding refers to adding or rearranging elements w/in sentences.

Question 5

which does NOT occur 8-10 mos of age..comprehending no; saying ‘all gone’; babbling; emerging object permanence; gestures

Answer 5

saying ‘all gone’ most children say this to express negation betw 1 and 2 yrs old.

Question 6

child omits word endings -est and -ily. what is he struggling with?

Answer 6

morphology bc he is deleted bound morphemes from ends of words

Question 7

7 yr old girl problems w/ conversational exchanges with peers, they ignore her, she is shy… therefore in tx you must

Answer 7

increase her skills in discourse. needs help w/ the give and take component of conversations.

Question 8

dough goes ‘in’ the bowl, set bowl ‘on top’ of counter…w what are they working on? (indirect requests, locatives, gerunds, pragmatics, derivational morphemes?)

Answer 8

locatives

Question 9

5 yr old lang sample “him no eat cookies” BREAK UP THIS SENTENCE (how many words, morphemes, personal pronouns, noun, verb etc)

Answer 9

4 words, 5 morphemes, personal pronoun (him), 1 negative (no), 1 verb (eat), 1 plural noun (cookies).
remember copula vs auxiliary (copula is the main “is” verb ex he is nice. auxiliary is the helping verb to a bigger action word ex he is working)

Question 10

which piaget stage includes object permanence and first word (then list the stages)

Answer 10

sensorimotor stage.

stages: sensorimotor (0-2 yrs); preoperational (2-7); concrete operations (7-11); formal operations (11+)

Question 11

what communicative intent does ‘why doggy bark’ serve? (heuristic, instrumental, regulatory, informative, imaginative)

Answer 11

heuristic – serves purpose of ‘tell me why’ and want explanations. (heuristic-why, instrumental-assistance, regulatory-control others, informative-share info, imaginative-pretend play)

Question 12

4th grader gets referred to you by his teacher; falling behind in reading/writing, kindergarten teacher noted “began school not knowing basic concepts and did not talk as much as other kids” WHAT DO YOU TELL THE PARENTS

Answer 12

• teacher is making reasonable demands that follow 4th grade curriculum
• you want to conduct a eval of his lang skills

Question 13

4 yr 10 mon w/ down syndrome. MLU 3.0, expressive vocab 350 words, sustains topic 20% of time, overregularizes past tense. parents want to know if she is ready for kindergarten..you tell them..

Answer 13

-her lang skills are similar to those of a 2 or 3 year old and starting kindergarten for her in the fall would be difficult for her

Question 14

clinician gives child fruit loop for correct responses and has a reward-system, this is following theory (information processing, nativist, social interactionist, government binding, or behaviorist?)

Answer 14

behaviorist

Question 15

3.5 yr old delayed lang, older siblings talk for him. he uses present progressive -ing, prepositions in and on, regular plural s, what do you target next (think browns morphemes)

Answer 15

irregular past tense verbs. review order of acquistion–browns 14 morphemes)

Question 16

6 yr old difficulty rhyming, sounding out words, if you say what is c-u-p she can’t tell you cup. also trouble remembering what she hears, needs multiple reminders. what are her isssues

Answer 16

phonological processing and temporal auditory processing

Question 17

young child says ‘down’ when cup of juice falls off table and spills. ‘down’ serves as (action, locative action, possession, locative action, attribution, recurrence?)

Answer 17

locative action

Question 18

child referred for pragmatics–is rude/bossy to other kids. parents want him to stop demanding things giving orders. you will have to work on his facility of.. (passive sentence transformations; cohesion; narrative skills; indirect requests; didactic monologues)

Answer 18

indirect requests

Question 19

young child says ‘my doggy’ or ‘her ball’ is using the relation of (recurrence, possession, location, denial, attribution)

Answer 19

possession

Question 20

6 yr old talks short sentences, primarily simple sentences at school and home. you informally observe. next step is to..

Answer 20

tell teacher/parents you want formally evaluate her lang skills bc 6 yr old should have MLU 6.0-8.0 and her lang should approx the adult model

Question 21

in order to produce 2-word utterances a child must first

Answer 21

say 50 words

Question 22

baby look at cat, gma sees him do this and directs her gaze towards cat as well and then comments on the cat to the baby.. what is this called (line of regard or joint action?)

Answer 22

following the baby’s line of regard