Question
Many theorists believe that people have an innate predispositionto learn language. Three of the following provide sources ofevidence that these theorists use to support their belief. Whichone is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learnlanguage?
Group of answer choices
Children develop increasingly larger and more sophisticatedvocabularies as they grow older.
Most languages have certain characteristics in common, such assimilar ways of forming negatives.
Children sometimes learn a language more easily when they areexposed to it at a young age.
People in the same community learn the same language despitevery different experiences with that language.
Question
Maureen vehemently denies that trees are plants. Herunderstanding of what a plant is reflects which of the followingerrors?
Group of answer choices
a pragmatic error
undergeneralization
overgeneralization
overregularization
Question
Knowing which word combinations are grammatically correctreflects knowledge of:
Group of answer choices
Semantics
Context
Generalization
Syntax
Question
Which one of the following sentences reflects overregularizationin a child's speech? The words in question are underlined.
Group of answer choices
I ain't going to school today.
Are you gonna go on the field trip?
He don't know anything.
The sheeps are in the meadow.
Question
LaWanda understands that a single sentence can sometimes beinterpreted in two or more ways. For example, she realizes that thesentence \"I know more beautiful women than Miss America\" has twopossible interpretations: \"I know women who are more beautiful thanMiss America is\" or \"I know more beautiful women than Miss Americaknows.\" LaWanda's appreciation for the double meanings of somesentences reflects:
- Overgeneralization
- Metalinguistic awareness
- Pragmatics
- Expressive language
Group of answer choices
Expressive language
Overgeneralization
Pragmatics
Metalinguistic awareness
Question
Based on the textbook's discussion of bilingualism and bilingualchildren, three of the following statements are true. Which one ofthe statements is not necessarily true?
Group of answer choices
Bilingualism is sometimes the result of living in a household inwhich two languages are spoken regularly.
Learning a second language promotes greater metalinguisticawareness.
Children who learn a second language in addition to their nativetongue tend to have a more positive attitude toward people whospeak that second language.
Children who learn two languages before the age of four arelikely to master less of each language than they would if theylearned only one.
Question
Three of the following statements accurately describe thediversity we are likely to see in students' cognitive development.Which statement is inaccurate?
Group of answer choices
Rehearsal is more commonly observed in children who live indeveloping countries than in children who live in highly urbanizedand industrialized ones.
When eighth graders are asked to separate and control variablesin a problem about fishing, those who have often fished with familyor friends will be more successful than students who have neverfished.
Students with physical and sensory challenges may have lessgeneral knowledge of the world, limiting their ability to relatenew experiences to things they already know.
Some children in a first-grade classroom may show concreteoperational thought, whereas others may show signs ofpreoperational thought.
