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1. | Which component of speech acts is the most difficult todetermine? | | b. the context of the message | |
| | c. the effect on the listener | |
| | d. the intent of the message | |
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2. | If you tell a friend about a movie you watched the previousnight, you would be engaging in a |
3. | According to Bates, if a child cries and reaches for an objectbut never looks at her mother during this process, then it would beclassified as an example of the ________ phase of speech acts. |
4. | What is the relationship between a child's single wordutterances and the ability to convey intent? | a. Up to nine meaningful functionshave been reported with the aid of extralinguistic behavior. | |
| | b. Communication function thatappear here, later disappear until they are able to use linguisticforms to produce them. | |
| | c. In this stage the child'scommunication functions are conveyed by the words selected. | |
| | d. No meaningful communicationfunctions are possible until the two-word stage. | |
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5. | You believe that preschool children have problems conversingbecause they lack the requisite cognitive abilities to be able totake the point of view of another. This view fits within theframework of | a. developmental language. | |
| | b. Piaget's collectivemonologue. | |
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6. | A child is able to put together a model with the aid of anadult. Later he is able to do it alone by having internalized thedirection given by the adult. This is a view of private speech thatfits with |
7. | A child's earliest attempts to repair miscommunication | a. involve the preverbal repetitionor revision of signals or gestures. | |
| | b. involves the revision of theverbal message. | |
| | c. involves the repetition of theverbal message. | |
| | d. are seen in the form of repeatedbabbles. | |
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8. | What have researchers found when study the development ofchildren's ability to sustain conversations? | a. most of their earlyconversational utterances are contingent | |
| | b. that staying on topic is easierthan starting a new topic | |
| | c. most children's speech wasadjacent (occurring after an adult utterance) | |
| | d. most of their early utterancesare nonadjacent (without a prior adult utterance) | |
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9. | If a child is asked about a birthday party she attended andtells about it by including things that did occur but other thingsthat are typically part of a birthday party but did not happen inthis case, then this | a. illustrates she is in the firstphase of narrative development. | |
| | b. means she is using general eventknowledge to produce it. | |
| | c. indicates she is not followingthe typical course of narrative development. | |
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10. | Which statement about narrative development is true? | a. young children are better atfictional than personal narratives. | |
| | b. 5 year olds are still dependenton adults for aid in telling narratives. | |
| | c. Narratives improve during schoolyears due to development of linguistic devices that improvetemporal order. | |
| | d. Narrative development isessentially complete by 4 to 5 years of age. | |
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11. | Researchers studying the development of request forms have foundthat children in the telegraphic speech stage | a. can only produce more than oneform if they combine speech with gestures. | |
| | b. can form a request in more thanone way. | |
| | c. require a parental scaffold tomake a request. | |
| | d. are unable to use differentrequest forms due to a lack of referential communicationskills. | |
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12. | How does the child-directed speech of children differ from thatof adult's child-directed speech? | a. children ask less questions thanadults | |
| | b. children are generally moreattuned to the younger child | |
| | c. children use lessattention-getting devices | |
| | d. children talk more to the childthan adults | |
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13. | You are examining the speech of a preschooler and find it to bevery assertive and demanding in it conversation style. Furthermore,the child tends to interrupt others often and uses lots ofimperatives. From this information you would guess the child | a. is a middle or last born childin the family. | |
| | b. is from a broken home. | |
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14. | Which statement regarding influences on communicative functionis accurate? | a. Culturally-based differencesplay a large role in the style of language use. | |
| | b. The differences in functions canbe accounted by biological factors and differences. | |
| | c. Lower SES children ask morequestions than higher SES children. | |
| | d. It is assumed to have little todo with biologically based factors. | |
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15. | How are Piaget's views of the communicative abilities ofpreschoolers supported by research on communicativedevelopment? | a. His concept of egocentric speechprovides an accurate description of the behavior found throughoutpreschool development of communication. | |
| | b. His views are not supported byresearch in this area throughout the preschool period. | |
| | c. His emphasis on the role ofexperience on communicative development is not supported by theresearch. | |
| | d. His views are supported up untilabout the age of three. | |
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