Child Language Development Quiz - Theory & Concepts
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- Q1Children may say 'fis' instead of 'fish', but they understand both. This is know as what?Reduplication complexThe fis phenomenonCluster reductionDe-voicing30s
- Q2Which term is not part of phonological develoment?ReduplicationAssimilationAdditionUnderextension30s
- Q3Turn-taking, adjacency pairs, closing sequences and non-verbal speech are all part of what?GrammarHolophrastic stageSocial conventionsPragmatics30s
- Q4Which language theorist believed that language was just another form of learned behaviour, through positive and negative reinforcement. Children are a blank slate.ChomskySkinnerBerkoPiaget30s
- Q5Who believed that we have an innate ability to use language and grammar, hard-wired in all of us from birth?ChomskyBrunerVygotskySkinner30s
- Q6Steven Pinker, a contemporary theorist, suggests that language is an instinct which has evolved. His theories are closer to...ChomskySkinner30s
- Q7Jerome Bruner focus on what...The Wug testUse of phonology in toddlersInteractions between child and carerThe blank slate theory30s
- Q8This is a wug. This is a very tiny wug. What would you call a very tiny wug?A wuggieA tiny wugA wuggleA wuglet30s
- Q9Jean Berko Gleason calls herself an 'interactionist'. What does she mean by this?She refuses to communicate via written words.Emotion is more important than actual languageChiildren learn language through interactionIt is important to interact with other theorist to identify the truth30s