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This document contains a set of made-up questions related to linguistics and language acquisition, suitable for an undergraduate-level examination (305 final). It covers topics such as language components, speech production, theoretical perspectives, and cognitive development.
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1. What is necessary to produce speech? 2. Match the following linguistic components to the proper definition. a. Phonology ____ 1. Rules of a language b. Morphology ____ 2. Study of words c. Semantics ____ 3. T...
1. What is necessary to produce speech? 2. Match the following linguistic components to the proper definition. a. Phonology ____ 1. Rules of a language b. Morphology ____ 2. Study of words c. Semantics ____ 3. The inherent meaning of words d. Syntax ____ 4. Sounds of speech e. Pragmatics ____ 5. The way in which words are used f. Prosody ____ 6. Patterns of stress and intonation 3. Which of the following design features of language are believed to be understood by humans only? a. Rapid fading b. Vocal-auditory channel c. Prevarication d. Discreetness e. None of the above 4. The first step in the speech chain is a. The formation of the mental message b. Neural impulses are sent to articulators c. Disturbances are perceived by the listener d. Disturbance patterns are transformed into mental models 5. Phonation is caused by _________________________. 6. What is PHYSIOLOGICALLY necessary to produce speech? 7. Speaking, listening, mutual understanding, body language, and transfer of information, are all parts of what? 8. The use of vocal folds, the production of sound, knowledge of the language, are all parts of what? 9. The nativist interpretation is based on… a. Teaching b. Biology c. Social interactions d. All of the above 10. The behaviorist interpretations are also called, a. Nurture interpretations b. Nature interpretations c. Interactionist interpretations d. Cognitive interpretations 11. Discovering and applying the rules to a specific language from possible ones is called a. Interpretation b. Deep Structure c. Language Acquisition d. Transformations 12. True or false, the nativist perspective says that only humans possess the capacity for language. 13. Learning is based on imitation and reinforcement… this is a tenet of the ____________ perspective. 14. B.F. Skinner did research on, a. Language acquisition b. Operant conditioning c. Language disorders d. Felicity conditions 15. The verbal behavior of autoclitic is… a. A child talking to themselves b. Repeating what they heard c. Talking to another person d. Asking for something 16. The verbal behavior of mand is… a. A child talking to themselves b. Repeating what they heard c. Talking to another person d. Asking for something 17. The verbal behavior of intraverbal is… a. A child talking to themselves b. Repeating what they heard c. Talking to another person d. Asking for something 18. ___________ is when the care giver is modeling, expanding, and using selective reinforcement with a child’s language. 19. The semantic theory suggests that language a. Is a product of cognitive development b. Is a social approach of motivation c. Develops to express meaning d. Is learned like all other behaviors 20. The sensorimotor stage occurs at _____ - _____ years old. 21. The preoperational stage occurs at ______ - ______ years old. 22. The concrete operational stage occurs at ______ - _____ years old. 23. The formal operational stage occurs at _____ - _____years old. 24. Order the four stages of Piaget’s model of cognitive organization a. Accommodation ______ b. Schema _______ c. Equilibrium _______ d. Assimilation ______ 25. The mental repository allowing for voluntary storage and processing of task-relevant information is called a. Controlled attention b. Working memory c. Executive function d. None of the above 26. The set of control processes allowing to maintain attention, inhibit irrelevant information, and use working memory is called, a. Controlled attention b. Working memory c. Executive function d. None of the above 27. The capacity to maintain and hold relevant information is called a. Controlled attention b. Working memory c. Executive function d. None of the above 28. When looking at the environment and language performance correlations, what all matters? (select all that apply) a. The child is regularly spanked at home. b. The child attended Head Start. c. The child has highly educated parents. d. The child’s parents regularly take him to museums. e. The child’s mother was 30 or older at time of the child’s birth. f. The child’s parents are involved in the PTA. g. The child’s mother didn’t work between birth and kindergarten. h. The child’s parents have high income. i. The child’s parents speak English in the home. j. The child regularly watches TV at home. 29. Syntactic information is ___________ [expansion or extension] and semantic + syntactic information is _____________ [expansion or extension]. 30. The baby says “da da da.” This baby is at least at this babbling stage: a. Marginal b. Reduplicated c. Variegated d. Jargon 31. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 1 is: 32. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 2 is: 33. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 3 is: 34. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 4 is: 35. Why do we collect language samples? a. To compare data b. To find disorders c. To see how language changes over time d. All of the above 36. True or False, in a language sample, one-topic sample during one activity is valid. 37. What is a language sample? 38. What is the minimum number of utterances needed for a language sample? a. 60 b. 75 c. 50 d. 35 39. True or False: Role-playing toys and manipulative materials are good tools for eliciting a language sample. 40. True or False: Language sample transcriptions are typed phonetically and in grammatically correct forms. 41. True or False: Repetitions, unintelligible utterances, and incomplete utterances are still counted as part of the sample. 42. How do you calculate MLU? 43. Read the following language sample, and calculate the MLU. Adult Child It can’t, watch. It won’t work. Aww, the button doesn’t work anymore? No. Is that your favorite book? Have you read that one a lot? An he’ll, and they’ll catch butterflies. Aww. [parents talking in background] And um, an he’ll sleeping. Look at him tucking him in. That’s so cool. That’s his daddy. Yeah? Mmm. And he’s ticklin’ um. He’s tickling him – look at him! Yeah. An he, he catchin’ ba, butterflies. Uh-huh. Swimmeen. Oooh. They hanging up laundry? Look at the socks! Yeah. You… don’t have any socks. I don’t have any socks. 44. A combination of words that are related to one another is a: a. Type-token ratio b. Language sample c. Phrase d. Agentive noun 45. The child adds no or not between the subject and predicate and adds auxiliary forms to negative forms during Brown’s Stage: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 46. We see negation first develop at the end of Brown’s Stage: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 47. A negative expression claiming that an actual statement or other was not the case is: a. Denial b. Rejection c. Non-existence d. None of the above 48. The referent was not evident in the content where there was an expectation of its existence and was negated in child’s utterance or some gesture is: a. Denial b. Rejection c. Non-existence d. None of the above 49. The referent existed and was rejected or opposed by the child is: a. Denial b. Rejection c. Non-existence d. None of the above 50. An interrogative with rising intonation emerges during: a. Late stage 1 – Early stage 2 b. Late Stage 2 – Early Stage 3 c. Late Stage 3 – Early Stage 4 51. The only way that children accomplish learning so many new words during a day is because of: a. Causality b. Fast mapping c. Pragmatics d. Collaboration 52. Quantifiers and modifiers emerge during Brown’s Stage: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 53. To be more polite, children use indirect questions, during which of Brown’s Stages of Development does this arise? ________________ 54. True or False: Home is the dominant force in the socialization of children. 55. Horizontal expansion is used to _______________________________ while vertical expansion is used to _____________________________________. 56. Placing words into categories based on the semantic relations is called: a. Descriptive b. Dictionary c. Categorical d. Chunking 57. Which of the following are apart of figurative language? (select all that apply): a. Simile b. Dictation c. Irony d. Proverb e. Chunking f. Linguistics g. Embedding h. Humor i. Syntax j. Phrases k. Metaphor l. Idiom 58. Match the following reader to their proper definition a. Emergent readers _____ 1. confidently and competently read on their b. Developing readers own and when they are alone. c. Independent readers _____ 2. pretending to read _____ 3. established the habit of reading for meaning and use a variety of strategies to determine meaning while reading 59. The development of spelling arises in the order of ____ letter name, ____ pre- phonemic, ____ transitional, ____ early phonemic. 60. A speech sound that is different from all other sounds; the minimal units of speech: a. Phoneme b. Morpheme c. Letter d. Consonant 61. Consonant clusters with ____ sounds appear before ____ sounds. 62. The influence sounds have on one another in context is called: a. Ordering b. Coarticulation c. Speech d. Phonology 1. What is necessary to produce speech? Respiration phonation resonance articulation , , , 2. Match the following linguistic components to the proper definition. a. Phonology ____ 1. Rules of a language b. Morphology c. Semantics : ____ 2. Study of words ____ 3. The inherent meaning of words d. Syntax ____ A 4. Sounds of speech e. Pragmatics ____ E 5. The way in which words are used f. Prosody ____ F 6. Patterns of stress and intonation 3. Which of the following design features of language are believed to be understood by humans only? a. Rapid fading b. Vocal-auditory channel c. Prevarication d. Discreetness e. None of the above 4. The first step in the speech chain is a. The formation of the mental message b. Neural impulses are sent to articulators c. Disturbances are perceived by the listener d. Disturbance patterns are transformed into mental models 5. Phonation is caused by _________________________. vocal fold vibration 6. What is PHYSIOLOGICALLY necessary to produce speech? vocal folds breathing resonance articulators , , , 7. Speaking, listening, mutual understanding, body language, and transfer of information, are all parts of what? 8. The use of vocal folds, the production of sound, knowledge of the language, are all parts of what? Communication 9. The nativist interpretation is based on… a. Teaching b. Biology c. Social interactions d. All of the above 10. The behaviorist interpretations are also called, a. Nurture interpretations b. Nature interpretations c. Interactionist interpretations d. Cognitive interpretations 11. Discovering and applying the rules to a specific language from possible ones is called a. Interpretation b. Deep Structure c. Language Acquisition d. Transformations 12. True or false, the nativist perspective says that only humans possess the capacity for language. True 13. Learning is based on imitation and reinforcement… this is a tenet of the ____________ behaviorist perspective. 14. B.F. Skinner did research on, a. Language acquisition b. Operant conditioning c. Language disorders d. Felicity conditions 15. The verbal behavior of autoclitic is… a. A child talking to themselves b. Repeating what they heard c. Talking to another person d. Asking for something 16. The verbal behavior of mand is… a. A child talking to themselves b. Repeating what they heard c. Talking to another person d. Asking for something 17. The verbal behavior of intraverbal is… a. A child talking to themselves b. Repeating what they heard c. Talking to another person d. Asking for something Parentese is when the care giver is modeling, expanding, and using selective 18. ___________ reinforcement with a child’s language. 19. The semantic theory suggests that language a. Is a product of cognitive development b. Is a social approach of motivation c. Develops to express meaning d. Is learned like all other behaviors 20. The sensorimotor stage occurs at _____ O - _____ 2 years old. 21. The preoperational stage occurs at ______ 27 - ______ years old. 22. The concrete operational stage occurs at ______ 7 - _____ Il years old. 23. The formal operational stage occurs at _____ - _____years old. 11 t 24. Order the four stages of Piaget’s model of cognitive organization a. Accommodation ______ 3 b. Schema _______ 1 c. Equilibrium _______ 4 d. Assimilation ______ 2 25. The mental repository allowing for voluntary storage and processing of task-relevant information is called a. Controlled attention b. Working memory c. Executive function d. None of the above 26. The set of control processes allowing to maintain attention, inhibit irrelevant information, and use working memory is called, a. Controlled attention b. Working memory c. Executive function d. None of the above 27. The capacity to maintain and hold relevant information is called a. Controlled attention b. Working memory c. Executive function d. None of the above 28. When looking at the environment and language performance correlations, what all matters? (select all that apply) a. The child is regularly spanked at home. b. The child attended Head Start. c. The child has highly educated parents. d. The child’s parents regularly take him to museums. e. The child’s mother was 30 or older at time of the child’s birth. f. The child’s parents are involved in the PTA. g. The child’s mother didn’t work between birth and kindergarten. h. The child’s parents have high income. i. The child’s parents speak English in the home. j. The child regularly watches TV at home. 29. Syntactic information is ___________ expansion [expansion or extension] and semantic + syntactic information is _____________ extension [expansion or extension]. 30. The baby says “da da da.” This baby is at least at this babbling stage: a. Marginal b. Reduplicated c. Variegated d. Jargon 0 31. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 1 is: 1 0-1. 32. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 2 is: 2 0-2.. 5. 33. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 3 is: 2 5-3 0.. 34. The average MLU of a child in Brown’s Stage 4 is: 3 0-3 75.. 35. Why do we collect language samples? a. To compare data b. To find disorders c. To see how language changes over time d. All of the above 36. True or False, in a language sample, one-topic sample during one activity is valid. False 37. What is a language sample? a snippet of a child's language. 38. What is the minimum number of utterances needed for a language sample? a. 60 b. 75 c. 50 d. 35 39. True or False: Role-playing toys and manipulative materials are good tools for eliciting a language sample. True 40. True or False: Language sample transcriptions are typed phonetically and in grammatically correct forms. False 41. True or False: Repetitions, unintelligible utterances, and incomplete utterances are still counted as part of the sample. False 42. How do you calculate MLU? Total of morphemes/total of utterances 43. Read the following language sample, and calculate the MLU. Adult 12 11e Child I - ↳ I It can’t, watch. It won’t work. 2 Aww, the button doesn’t work anymore? I & 3 No. Is that your favorite book? Have you read that one a lot? 2 4) 1 26 An he’ll, and they’ll catch butterflies. Aww. [parents talking in background] 2 Look at him tucking him in. 5))12 And um, an he’ll sleeping. S That’s so cool. I 6 That’s his daddy. Yeah? I 1221 7 Mmm. And he’s ticklin’ um. 8 He’s tickling him – look at him! I 9 Yeah. An he, he catchin’ ba, butterflies. 10 Uh-huh. MLK Oooh. They hanging up laundry? Look at the socks! " Swimmeen. 12 Yeah. , 21 2 13 You… don’t have any socks. ↓ I don’t have any socks. 44. A combination of words that are related to one another is a: a. Type-token ratio b. Language sample c. Phrase d. Agentive noun 45. The child adds no or not between the subject and predicate and adds auxiliary forms to negative forms during Brown’s Stage: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 46. We see negation first develop at the end of Brown’s Stage: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 47. A negative expression claiming that an actual statement or other was not the case is: a. Denial b. Rejection c. Non-existence d. None of the above 48. The referent was not evident in the content where there was an expectation of its existence and was negated in child’s utterance or some gesture is: a. Denial b. Rejection c. Non-existence d. None of the above 49. The referent existed and was rejected or opposed by the child is: a. Denial b. Rejection c. Non-existence d. None of the above 50. An interrogative with rising intonation emerges during: a. Late stage 1 – Early stage 2 b. Late Stage 2 – Early Stage 3 c. Late Stage 3 – Early Stage 4 51. The only way that children accomplish learning so many new words during a day is because of: a. Causality b. Fast mapping c. Pragmatics d. Collaboration 52. Quantifiers and modifiers emerge during Brown’s Stage: a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 53. To be more polite, children use indirect questions, during which of Brown’s Stages of Stage 4 Development does this arise? ________________ 54. True or False: Home is the dominant force in the socialization of children. False 55. Horizontal expansion is used to _______________________________ make meanings more precise while vertical expansion is used to _____________________________________. understand more abstract meanings 56. Placing words into categories based on the semantic relations is called: a. Descriptive b. Dictionary c. Categorical d. Chunking 57. Which of the following are apart of figurative language? (select all that apply): a. Simile b. Dictation c. Irony d. Proverb e. Chunking f. Linguistics g. Embedding h. Humor i. Syntax j. Phrases k. Metaphor l. Idiom 58. Match the following reader to their proper definition a. Emergent readers _____ C 1. confidently and competently read on their b. Developing readers own and when they are alone. c. Independent readers _____ A 2. pretending to read _____ B 3. established the habit of reading for meaning and use a variety of strategies to determine meaning while reading 59. The development of spelling arises in the order of ____ 3 letter name, ____1 pre- phonemic, ____ 4 transitional, ____ 2 early phonemic. 60. A speech sound that is different from all other sounds; the minimal units of speech: a. Phoneme b. Morpheme c. Letter d. Consonant 61. Consonant clusters with ____ 2 sounds appear before ____ 3 sounds. 62. The influence sounds have on one another in context is called: a. Ordering b. Coarticulation c. Speech d. Phonology