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| • One’s mental representation of a word contains what two types of information? |
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| Phonological code and Meaning |
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| • Around the time a child has developed a 50-word vocabulary, we expect to see the emergence of two-word utterances and what other increase in language? |
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| • In order to be considered a true first word, an utterance must be produced consistently in the presence of the same person/object/event AND what else? |
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| It must bear some phonetic resemblance to the conventional form of the word |
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| • True or False: The type of semantic learning in which a child associates a word and its referent at initial exposure is called fast mapping. |
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| • True or False: The part of working memory that is responsible for encoding and manipulating speech-based input is the Central Executor. |
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| • The term that refers to the change in vocabulary organization that children go through during the preschool years as their cognitive and language development matures is called |
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| • Which of the following is NOT a factor that either hinders or facilitates the process of “learning” a new word? |
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| The number of morphemes the word contains |
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| • Whose study on morphological development revealed the significant finding that the order of acquisition of morphemes is consistent? |
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| • Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) is calculated by counting the number of free and bound morphemes and dividing by |
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| the total number of utterances analyzed |
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| • Whose study suggested that children are using internalized knowledge about morphological rules, rather than learning morphemes through listening and imitating what they have heard? |
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| • Two grammatical markers frequently present in the language of children with Specific Language Impairment are |
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| . Deficits in verb morphology and inappropriate assignment of case to pronouns |
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| • True or False: MLU begins to lose its validity as a measure of children’s linguistic knowledge once it becomes higher than seven. |
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| • True or False: The use of Optional Infinitives is a normal part of the development of morphology. |
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| • Syntax falls under which of the three areas of language? |
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| • In a child whose language is delayed, we expect to see syntactic development more closely correlated to |
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| • True or False: Grammatical and lexical learning appear to develop entirely separately from each other. |
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| • Based on the milestones chart in the Syntax lecture, at what stage of MLU do we expect to see the first morphological forms appear? |
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| • “The smallest arbitrary unit of sound in a given language that can be recognized as being distinct from the other sounds in the language” is the definition of a |
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| • The focus of treatment for a phonological disorder should be based on what principle? |
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| reorganizing the phonological system |
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| • What is defined as a normal simplification tactic children use when they are learning to produce sound sequences? |
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| • During which stage of pre-linguistic vocal production does a baby produce reduplicated sound and syllable shapes, such as “babababa”? |
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| • True or False: Once a child has a 100+ word vocabulary, his phonological system should be processing sounds holistically (each word as a whole, not analyzing individual parts within words). |
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| • True or False: Phonological processes are considered a normal part of language development as long as they do not persist past an acceptable age. |
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| • True or False: Children with phonological impairment typically have higher than average literacy skills. |
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| • Knowing how to use one’s language appropriately and strategically in social situations is having |
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| • Forming a link between the emotional memory of an event and the physical characteristics of the event is called |
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| • True or False: The fact that there are no hard-and-fast rules is one challenge that children face in the task of developing appropriate pragmatic skills. |
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| • School-age children need to be able to use language in what four modalities? |
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| listening, reading, speaking, and writing |
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| • When learning new words, school-age children rely less on direct instruction and more on what? |
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| orthographic knowledge and automatic word recognition |
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| • Which stage of reading development involves reading words by processing letter-sound correspondence? |
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| • Which stage of reading development involves reading by visually accessing semantic memory without accessing phonological information? |
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| Automatic word recognition |
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| • True or False: A child does not necessarily need to master the first four components of reading in order to master the fifth and final area of reading instruction, Text Comprehension. |
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| • A child whose language acquisition is following a pattern of typical development, but is hitting milestones later than expected has a |
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| • A child whose language is impaired and is not following a typical developmental pattern and/or is so delayed he is not expected to catch up to age-matched peers has a |
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| • True or False: There is a genetic link to Specific Language Impairment. |
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| • Marked pragmatic deficits and reliance on a narrow range of grammatic constructions, but strong phonological skills and a relatively well-developed lexicon are generally characteristic of children with |
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| • Deficits in both comprehension and production of language, slow vocabulary acquisition, less complex syntax, and a reduced sound inventory are generally characteristic of children with |
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| • True or False: Very young children will typically begin putting multi-word utterances together by simply stringing content words together with no real use of syntax. |
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| • Besides early learning of sound-symbol relationships, what aspect of language development greatly affects a child’s ability to store and retrieve orthographic information when reading? |
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| the organization of the lexicon |
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| • True or False: Repetition is the least complex level of language of processing, as shown on the Child Language Processing Model. |
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