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• Question 1 The innateness hypothesis refers to the fact that children are equipped with a blueprint for language which helps them in constructing a grammar for their language • Question 2 Enrique is a seventh month old infant. He is now making vocalizations that combine consonants and vowels. He is communicating using which of the following? Question 3 In child language research, Noam Chomsky is famous for arguing that ______ • Question 4 Which of the following IS TRUE regarding infants abilities to discriminate sounds? • Question 5 In English, to make a noun plural you typically add an S. There are exceptions. For example the plural for the noun foot is feet. When a child uses the word foots instead of feet, the child’s speech reflects which of the following? • Question 6 Children learn language specific structures • Question 7 In early word learning ______ • Question 8 Infants acquiring English make assumptions about word boundaries based on the predominant stress pattern of the language, which is ______. • Question 9 Very young infants can distinguish minimal pairs in ______ • • Question 10 In the holophrastic stage, children use one -word utterances to refer to the meaning of an entire sentence

• Question 11 Infants cannot distinguish sounds that are non existent in the language of their parents. • Question 12 According to the innateness hypothesis, babbling is prelinguistic. • Question 13 The poverty of the stimulus argument is based on the assumption that the child ______. • Question 14 The 'whole object' principle refers to the child's tendency to _____ • • Question 15 Young children's utterances conform to the rules they have acquired up to that point. • Question 16 Following is a list of utterances recorded from Sammy at age 2.5a. Mikey not see him.b. Where ball go?c. He no bite yaWhat stage of language development is Sammy in? • Question 17 At what age do children typically enter the one word stage? • Question 18 The linguistic input children receive is a set of phrase structure rules • Question 19 When children overextend word meanings, they use a word ______. • Question 20 Compared with adult-directed speech, the vocabulary of child-directed speech has a high frequency of ______.

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