Pre-linguistic & early linguistic stages of Language Development

The early stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters consonant and vowel combinations is referred to as:

• babbling

• cooing

• vegetative sounds

• protowords

_________ is the first set of sounds (burping, crying) that the infant (0-2 months) makes.

• vegetative sounds

• cooing

• true babbling

• speech

When the infant repeatedly produces the same consonant-vowel combination, this is referred to as:

• reduplicated babbling

• jargon babbling

• variegated babbling

• vegetative babbling

__________ babbling occurs between 12 and 18 months, and is marked by the infant's production of of long strings of syllables, and more varied stress and intonation patterns.

• variegated

• jargon

• true

• vegetative

________ starts to develop in the two-word stage when the child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs.

• telegraphic speech

• semantics

• syntax

• broken speech

When a child uses the word 'dog' to refer first to a soft-toy dog then for a woolen scarf, a cat, a fur coat the child is using:

• analogical overextension

• categorical overextension

• underextension

• associative overextension

The child who uses muffin to refer to both blueberries and to blueberry muffins, but not to other types of muffins is exhibiting which two of the following?

• underextension

• analogical overextension

• categorial overextension

• associative overextension

______________ is exhibited when a child 5 uses 'Bubby' (the family’s baby talk word for his brother) to refer first to his brother then to his 3 year old boy cousin and the little boy next door.

• underextension

• categorical overextension

• associative overextension

• analogical overextension

The child shows his/her intention to communicate from as early as:

• 3 months

• 5 months

• 8 months

• 12 months

Cooing is usually understood as the production of _____.

• consonant sounds

• mostly consonant sounds with a few vowels

• vowel-like sounds

• consonants and vowels