True and false quiz - language acquisition PDF

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language development true and false quiz questions and answers on language acquisition ...

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1. This video supports the generative/nativist approach, (babies are born with an innate ability for language learning). a. true 2. The idea that one set of principles underlies all languages, (i.e.; Universal Grammar), was developed by B.F. Skinner. a. False, it was noam chomsky 3. Infants master language much faster than they should if they were born with “a blank slate”. a. true 4. Despite the language to which a baby is exposed, early babbling of all babies is composed of the same set of sounds. a. true 5. Babies prefer to use high vowels, continuant consonants and nasals when they start to babble. a. False, they favor labial, stop, and low vowels 6. Babies pick up words at the same approximate age and rate. a. true 7. The average two and a half- old toddler is acquiring new words at the rate of about 10 per day. a. true 8. Researchers have discovered means to reproduce the English language through computers with the same ease that children acquire language. a. False, kids do it with more ease 9. The speaker makes a point that a two and a half old child knows how to use questions and modifiers before they can reliably use the bathroom. a. true 10. This video would be supported by proponents for the Interactionist Approach (linguistic knowledge comes from environmental input). a. false...