Chapter 7

Question 1

The most widely accepted theory concerning language acquisition holds that all infants are born with some kind of language acquisition device that enables them to learn whatever their mother tongue happens to be

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The use of two distinct varieties of a language for the same function is called diglossia

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Basic biological (reflexive) noises such as burping, crying, and coughing are produced during the first:

Answer 3

8-10 weeks

Question 4

Intonational contours such as those characteristic of questions begin to appear around the end of the:

Answer 4

First year

Question 5

A sentence such a “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence in English y termino en espanol” is an example of:

Answer 5

Code switching

Question 6

_ theory argues that there is a capacity for rapid language development present in the child at birth

Answer 6

Innatist

Question 7

_ theory of language acquisition argues that humans acquire language through successive stimuli and reinforcements

Answer 7

Behaviorist

Question 8

What was a couple of speech behaviors that mom/dad told you to do?

Answer 8

Mom would tell me to always say thank you when someone handed me something, because I would just smile and she said that was not polite enough.
Dad always corrects me on my use of filler words because he says when I start a sentence “I think, I might” ect. that people will take me less seriously

Question 9

What are three things you are going to write the essay on?

Answer 9

Universal grammar + Fruit study + Plato’s problem
First Americanist paradigm + Sociocultural paradigm + Social constructivism paradigm
ASL is a kinemic language that uses many cheremes over and over. For example, call, California, and yellow all have the same chereme