Language Development Theories Quiz
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What are the recursive mechanisms that allow sentences to go indeterminately in language acquisition?

  • Phonology, morphology, and syntax
  • Speech perception, speech production, and vocabulary acquisition
  • Relativization, complementation, and coordination (correct)
  • Syntax, semantics, and phonology

    • What are the two main guiding principles in first-language acquisition?

  • Speech perception precedes speech production, and language is learned all at once
  • Speech production always precedes speech perception, and language is learned all at once
  • Speech production precedes speech perception, and language is learned gradually
  • Speech perception always precedes speech production, and language is learned gradually (correct)

    • What are the tools that one needs to acquire to use language successfully?

  • Speech perception, speech production, and vocabulary acquisition
  • Phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and vocabulary (correct)
  • Syntax, semantics, and phonology
  • Relativization, complementation, and coordination

    • What is the fundamental difference between animals and humans in their motivation to learn language?

    <p>Animals are motivated by physical reward, while humans learn language to create a new type of communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the result of the study conducted on Victor of Aveyron?

    <p>Victor was able to learn a few words, but ultimately never fully acquired language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did researchers conclude about Genie's ability to learn language?

    <p>Genie was too old to learn how to speak productively, although she was still able to comprehend language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main focus of nativists, such as Chomsky, in understanding language acquisition?

    <p>The biologically given characteristics of the human brain that guide the process of language acquisition in infants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between first-language acquisition and second-language acquisition?

    <p>First-language acquisition refers to infants' acquisition of their native language, while second-language acquisition deals with the acquisition of additional languages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the argument of empiricists like Thomas Hobbes and John Locke regarding language acquisition?

    <p>Language is acquired through sensory experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is B. F. Skinner's theory on language acquisition?

    <p>Language is acquired through operant conditioning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Rudolf Carnap's Aufbau?

    <p>An attempt to learn all knowledge from sense datum, using the notion of 'remembered as similar' to bind them into clusters, which would eventually map into language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used by Hockett to describe the design feature of human language that allows for the creation of completely novel messages?

    <p>Productivity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the argument made by Chomsky against Skinner's idea of language acquisition through operant conditioning?

    <p>Skinner failed to account for the role of syntax in language competence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the key aspect that distinguishes humans from other beings in terms of language acquisition?

    <p>Capacity to acquire and use language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the argument made by Noam Chomsky against the term 'learning' used by Skinner to describe language acquisition through operant conditioning?

    <p>It does not account for the role of syntax in language competence</p> Signup and view all the answers

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