CLD Test Revision

Question 1

The most important stage of CLD around 6-9 months is…

Answer 1

Babbling*

Question 2

Name for a unit of sound?

Answer 2

Phoneme

Question 3

The term for child increasing the number of units of sound?

Answer 3

Phonemic expansion

Question 4

And term for child decreasing number of units of sound?

Answer 4

Phonemic contraction

Question 5

Approximate age of 1st word?

Answer 5

1 Year old

Question 6

Age of confident consonant use is between what age and what other age?

Answer 6

Age 6-7

Question 7

Name one of the methods by babies to simplify sounds

Answer 7

Deletion

Constanant clusters reduced

Question 8

Surnames of ‘Fis’ theorists?

Answer 8

Berko and Brown

Question 9

Surname of the football results theorist?

Answer 9

Cruttenden

Question 10

Surname of the nativism theorist?

Answer 10

Chomsky

Question 11

Surname of behaviourism theorist?

Answer 11

Skinner

Question 12

Chomsky said all children apply what inbuilt concept to language from birth? NB Answer here is NOT LAD

Answer 12

*

Question 13

1970 case study into the critical period – what was the child’s name?

Answer 13

Genie

Question 14

Surname of cognitive theorist?

Answer 14

Piaget

Question 15

Surname of social interaction theorist?

Answer 15

Bruner

Question 16

LASS stands for?

Answer 16

Language Acquisition Support System

Question 17

LAD stands for?

Answer 17

Language acquisition device

Question 18

The sounds ‘p’, ‘b’ and ‘m’ can be described with what term, beginning with the letter ‘b’?

Answer 18

Bilabial

Question 19

How many sounds (phonemes) in the word ‘cat’?

Answer 19

3

Question 20

How many sounds (phonemes) in the word ‘cart’?

Answer 20

3

Question 21

Imitation is a feature of whose model of CLD?

Answer 21

Skinner

Question 22

Who named the LAD, following Chomsky’s studies?

Answer 22

McNeil

Question 23

What is the name of the imaginary animal from Lecture 5?

Answer 23

Wug

Question 24

Which inflection did this wug study aim to consider?

Answer 24

Pluralisation of s

Question 25

Who theorised the ‘Critical Period Theory’?

Answer 25

Lenneberg

Question 26

Brown’s 1973 study covered the acquisition of inflections between which 2 ages?

Answer 26

20-36 months

Question 27

Which is theoretically the final inflection in Brown’s sequence?

Answer 27

auxiliary 'be'

Question 28

Cruttenden (1979) wrote about over __________ in Lecture 5? Fill the gap

Answer 28

overgeneralisation

Question 29

What 2-word phrase describes how children are not conscious that they’ve acquired grammatical rules?

Answer 29

metalinguistic awareness

Question 30

In question formation, in the third year, children begin to use auxiliary verbs and what other method?

Answer 30

Inversion

Question 31

Is ‘won’t’ (as in ‘I won’t care’) auxiliary or modal auxiliary?

Answer 31

Modal auxiliary

Question 32

What is the term for a phrase which tells you how or why or when a verb was done?

Answer 32

Determiner

Question 33

What word class in ‘mine’ (as in ‘That toy is mine’)?

Answer 33

Possessive pronoun

Question 34

What is the term for ‘single words which convey a more complex meaning’?

Answer 34

Holophrases

Question 35

In a typical English 3 word sentence, what is the word order? NB Initial letters are fine

Answer 35

Subject + verb + object

Question 36

In the two word stage, which types of words are commonly omitted (because they carry less information)?

Answer 36

Grammatical function words

Question 37

Bloom’s (1973) study into the two word stage explored which two word utterance?

Answer 37

Mummy sock

Question 38

By what age are the most basic grammatical rules learned, though some have yet to be mastered?

Answer 38

5 years old

Question 39

What is the name of the stage immediately after the two word stage?

Answer 39

Telegraphic stage

Question 40

Aitchison (1987) examined labelling, packaging and what final two word concept?

Answer 40

Network Building

Question 41

Complete this description of CDS phonology: ‘high pitched, with many _______-like rises and falls in pitch’

Answer 41

Glissandro

Question 42

What is the CDS word for ‘dinner?

Answer 42

din-din

Question 43

What type of syllable does CDS use to create its own vocabulary?

Answer 43

*

Question 44

What types of nouns feature heavily in CDS?

Answer 44

concrete nouns

Question 45

What types of verbs feature heavily in CDS?

Answer 45

dynamic verbs

Question 46

Complete this description of CDS grammar: ‘CDS grammar tends to omit _____ tense and ___________’

Answer 46

past tense and inflections

Question 47

What is the specialist term for when an adult puts the child’s own vocabulary into a new utterance?

Answer 47

Recastings

Question 48

Name the theorist (1973): ‘Children whose mothers talk to them more have larger vocabularies.’

Answer 48

Clarke Stuart

Question 49

Del Hymes’ theory about pragmatics is known by what two word alliterative phrase?

Answer 49

Communicative competence

Question 50

Name the theorist who categorised children’s language use into 7 functions.

Answer 50

Halliday

Question 51

What is the name of the function which is finding out about the environment?

Answer 51

*

Question 52

Yousef (1991) studied a group of children’s use of SE in which country?

Answer 52

Trinidad

Question 53

Which inflection did the wug study aim to consider?

Answer 53

Pluralisation of s

Question 54

By what age are the most basic grammatical rules learned, though some have yet to be mastered?

Answer 54

5 years old*

Question 55

The most important stage of CLD around 6-9 months is…

Answer 55

Babbling*

Question 56

Surname of cognitive theorist?

Answer 56

Piaget

Question 57

Surname of social interaction theorist?

Answer 57

Bruner

Question 58

The sounds ‘p’, ‘b’ and ‘m’ can be described with what term, beginning with the letter ‘b’?

Answer 58

Bilabial

Question 59

Name for a unit of sound?

Answer 59

Phoneme

Question 60

Approximate age of 1st word?

Answer 60

1 Year old