Children sometimes distinguish phoneme sounds in production, but adults can't hear the
difference. What does this phenomenon called? correct answers Covert contrast
What feature(s) of language provide(s) us with the ability to express an infinite number of
sentences and ideas? correct answers Productivity
What fact do syntactic bootstrapping theorists like Gleitman and Landau point to in claiming
that children probably use additional linguistic information to learn the meanings of new
verbs? correct answers The extra-linguistic context offered by social and other cues will most
likely not reveal a single clear meaning
The sentence "The girl is happy" reflects which of the following usages of the word "be"?
correct answers Contractible copula
The sentence "We were running" reflects which of the following usages of the word "be"?
correct answers Uncontractible auxiliary
Uncontracted function words are both... correct answers free morphemes and grammatical
morphemes
The term describing the fact that language allows people to represent decontextualized events
is referred to as: correct answers Semanticity and Displacement
Which of the following views emphasizes intention reading as an explanatory mechanism for
learning language? correct answers usage-based theory
The rules for "legal" (i.e., acceptable) orders of sounds in syllables and words and the places
where specific phonemes can and cannot occur are referred to as correct answers
Phonotactics
The term for the rules governing the sounds used to make syllables and words is correct
answers phonology
What is the name of the dialect that exists in much or most of Michigan? correct answers
Inland North
A term used for communication in which the referent is clear from context is referred to as:
correct answers Intentional communication or Iconic communication
An individual's ability to attend to the phonological units of speech through implicit or
explicit analysis is called correct answers phonological awareness
, A teacher says to her class, "Keep your eyes on your own paper." Which of the seven
purposes of communication is exemplified by this utterance? correct answers Regulatory
Movements of vocal cords for purposes of producing sounds during speech is correct answers
phonation
A guy admits to his girlfriend, "Last weekend when I went to Sean's party I got really
wasted." Which of the seven purposes of communication is exemplified by this utterance?
correct answers Informative
The term for the rules governing how language is used for social purposes is correct answers
pragmatics
A person asks a stranger "How do I get to the bus stop?" Which of the seven purposes of
communication is exemplified by this utterance? correct answers Heuristic
If a mother is listening to her young daughter talk and says "I know, honey" then what kind
of communication is the mother producing? correct answers linguistic feedback
Why might an individual use a non-standard dialect? correct answers The dialect has covert
prestige
The term best describing the arbitrary relationship between a symbol (like a word) and a
specific entity being referred to is correct answers symbolic communication
The fact that adjectives generally come before nouns in English, but that adjectives come
after nouns in Spanish, reflects a difference in these two languages'... correct answers syntax
Which of the following is the easiest goal of science to achieve? correct answers description
Under which of the following theories is all learning was believed to be the result of operant
conditioning? correct answers behaviorism
The process by which children use the syntactic frames surrounding unknown verbs to
successfully constrain the possible semantic interpretations of the verbs is known as
________ bootstrapping. correct answers syntactic
A child says to another child, "You're Batman and I'm Robin." Which of the seven purposes
of communication is exemplified by this utterance? correct answers Imaginative
What kind of measures can be obtained to study preverbal infants' speech and language
perception? correct answers Patterns of sucking behavior, Patterns of head turning, Eye gaze,
Play with puppets
Under which theory are children viewed as arriving at the task of language learning without
innate knowledge, such that language is instead "taught" through positive and negative social
interactions? correct answers behaviorist theory
What is the name for morphemes added to root words to create derived words? correct
answers Derivational morphemes, Bound morphemes, and Affixes
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