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Language Development

Quiz by Roberto Jaen

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  • Q1
    A set of spoken, written, or signed words and the way we combine them to communicate meaning
    language
    30s
  • Q2
    Short, distinctive sound units
    Phonemes
    30s
  • Q3
    The smallest units that carry meaning
    Phonemes
    Morphomes
    Morphemes
    Largephemes
    30s
  • Q4
    A system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
    Grammar
    30s
  • Q5
    The ability to understand what's being said both to, and about us
    Receptive language
    Comprehension language
    Understanding
    Communicative language
    30s
  • Q6
    Ability to produce words
    Communicative language
    Speaking
    Productive language
    Talking
    30s
  • Q7
    Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
    Babbling
    30s
  • Q8
    The stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words
    One word
    Early speech
    Babbling
    6 months old
    30s
  • Q9
    Beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly in two-word statements
    Late speech
    Early speech
    Two-word
    One-word
    30s
  • Q10
    Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns and verbs
    One word
    Telegraphic speech
    Late speech
    Noun speech
    30s
  • Q11
    Natural learning through reinforcement
    Innate learning
    30s
  • Q12
    States that all human languages contain nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and humans are born with an innate ability to acquire language, and even a genetic predisposition to learn grammatical rules
    Universal grammar
    30s
  • Q13
    A neurological impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding)
    Aphasia
    30s
  • Q14
    Involved in production of speech
    Broca's area
    Wernicke's area
    30s
  • Q15
    Involved in the comprehension of language
    Broca's area
    Wernicke's area
    30s

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