Final Exam Normal Language

Mean Length utterance is the average number of morphemes in children's words.

The method of calculating the number of morphemes in children's utterances involves counting some 2-3 word phrases as only a single word.

There are______ morphemes in the following utterance. "I saw Big Bird"

The number of morphemes in the following statement are...." My mom works at school."

Abilities present at birth in the human brain that are not acquired are known as_________

An organized representation of knowledge is also known as a _________.

There are three types of neurons, _________, sensory and interneuron

Children have an expressive vocabulary of _________ at 24 months.

When a child learns two languages, the child's true vocabulary knowledge is scored, rather than the language that is being learned. This is known as ____________.

When a child labels all animals that are furry and have 4 legs "doggy" it is known as _________.

The cognitive process that involves fitting this new entity into an existing schema is called_________.

_____involves changing an existing schema to make the new entity fit.

What is the stage in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development where children form ideas based on their perceptions

______ are things or events that excite infants; sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell

In this stage of Piaget's theory of development, Children discover the environment, and learn through sensory perception and motor activity.____________

______is when children remember that an object exists even if it is not seen.

Between18-12 months ,infants can anticipate events they also establish goals and ways of getting what they want. This is known as _________________

When children create roles for others in a play scheme is known as __________

Language and play are both dependent on ________

Two things that play a role in children's pretend play are causal cognition and _________

During joint attention when the infant and another person share the same direction of eye gaze, the most significant feature is that ___________

______awareness is a factor in children's literacy development.

_____allows children to hold, process and manipulate information or keep this

The ability to perceive and understand sounds that are associated with spoken language is _________

The first stage of babbling in which the infant produces the same consonant vowel syllables is known as_________

Babbling occurs between these months________

In what stage of infant productions do you hear vegetative sounds such as burping and coughing?

The speech production that is very similar to an adults speech productin in intonation and rhythm and is intermixed with real words is known as_______

The four stages of cognitive skills are: perception, attention, memory, thought and ______

The knowledge needed to achieve or accomplish a goal. Knowledge that was not explicitly taught or talked about to the infant. Instead, it is knowledge that is possessed by the infant.____

What is the requirement in understanding pronouns?

Prosody is a communicative tool that involves __________, intensity and frequency when producing words.

Speech is defined as the verbal means of communicating through___

Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that create a _________ in meaning.

Theory of mind is the ability to understand the mental states of _____________.

A person, place or thing is a ____

Communication is the process of exchanging information through a speaker's ideas, _______, feelings, needs, or desires

An example of a paralinguistic cue is _______

Linguistic competence involves the acquisition and use of ___________, phonology, syntax, and semantics.

Phonology is the part of language that is concerned with the ______________of speech sounds for word formation.

Language is defined as a shared ______ that represents concepts through the use of arbitrary _____

A phonological process describes a child's production that ___________ from the target word produced by adults.

Syntax is a component of language that involves ______ for combining words to form sentences.

Grammar is the description of a language with respect to its components. These are ______, content and use. a. meaning

Verbs are _____ words.

Morphemes are the ____________ distinctive units of words that determine meaning.

Semantics describes the ________ that is conveyed by words.

Pragmatics refers to the appropriate use of language in _____________

A speech act labels a speaker's __________ or __________.

Modal auxiliary verbs makes speech more_____

Cognition involves knowledge and ________

Working memory is defined as the holding of _____________in mind as well as updating it when necessary.

_______ allows you to know what information is already known by the listener.

________ refers to the cognitive abilities used to control and coordinate information for planning goals, controlling responses, keeping information, shifting between tasks.

Metalinguistic abilities are the ability to think overtly about___________;manipulate the structural features of phonemes, words or sentences.

___________ is the child's self-knowledge of his own language and thought processes.

The Central Nervous system in humans is composed of the ________ and _________.

The basic functional unit of the nervous system. A nerve cell that receives and sends electrical signals within the body.

The ability of the brain to change and adapt when the individual is exposed to new experiences is called______

Chemicals that allow the transmission of signals from one neuron to the next across a synaptic cleft are ________

Nerve cells that transmit information to the central nervous system that includes sensations: sight, touch, smell, hearing are ___

Nerve cells that transmit directions to muscles for movement are _____

_____is the cell body of the neuron and integrates and transmits information to other cells.

The _____________allows transfer of sensory, motor and cognitive information between the two hemispheres.

The ___________ is the projection of a nerve cell that conducts impulses from the neuron.

The _________is the projection of the nerve cell that conducts impulses to the cell body.

The ___________is responsible for control of connected speech efforts important for performance of voluntary actions.

The ____________ is responsible for planning, execution, and monitoring, writing.

The ___________is responsible for speech reception or understanding of spoken language.

________is the primary auditory area and plays a role in processing linguistic information.

_______is located in the left frontal lobe and is responsible for speech production.

____Is located in the temporal lobe and is responsible for understanding sounds

A bundle of nerve fibers that connects Broca's are to Wernicke's area is the ______

This cranial nerve is involved in facial expression. ___

This cranial nerve is innervating the speech production muscles. __

This cranial nerve is involved in the function of the tongue and pharynx. _____

________is the ability to discriminate between sounds.

A sheet that covers some neurons and allows the electrical stimulation to move faster from neuron to neuron is the _______

The ___________ is the space between neurons.

The _________lobe is responsible for visual sensory input.

Is a type of neuron that fires when individuals perceive the facial expressions or actions of others.

The ability to draw conclusions from written text is known as _______________.

A subcortical structure that plays a role in reading and language processing is the ______

__________. Is the relay station, conveying information to and from the cerebral cortex.

The ability to understand others' mental states, such as an individual's beliefs, intents and wishes is

An innate language acquisition device (LAD) allows children to establish grammatical information from spoken language.

Language develops through experience with language as it is used in the environment. Language information is gained from interaction with peers and adults with more advanced language skills.

Language develops through pattern finding for language used across different situations.

Children learn through schemas, consisting of psychological structures that allow children to attach meaning to entities.

________ are innate language general rules that include general principles that apply to all languages.

_____are psychological structures that allow children to understand, attach meaning and organize knowledge about entities they are exposed to in the environment.

________are language specific rules that apply to the specific syntactic structure for different languages.

_________ is the approach frequently used by adults to support learning language.

______is the ability to produce words for entities or events that are out of sight.

_______ describes the distance between a child's actual development and ta child's and his potential development.

A____ is rule governed Varian of a language.

Bilingual is defined as the ability to speak both languages fluently.

The distinction between simultaneous bilinguals and sequential bilinguals is the ____ in which they are introduced to the second language.

Bilingual development can be complicated by the fact that bilingual children skills can vary by_____.

It is typical for bilingual children to have language loss.