CLA Meaning: Lexical, semantic and pragmatic development

Which researcher identified 4 categories that typified a child's first 50 words?

• Katherine Fenson

• Katherine Nelson

• Jean Aitchison

• Jean Paiget

What percentage (according to Nelson) are naming words in a baby's first words

• 40%

• 50%

• 60%

• 70%

What's the term for a form of words used to address a person such as that underlined here: Come here, Mummy!

• holophrase

• modifier

• command

• vocative

A child's productive vocabulary is larger than his/her receptive vocabulary

• true

• false

The 'naming explosion' takes place at about"

• 6 months

• 12 months

• 18 months

• 24 months

Which linguist described the 'naming insight' and the 'naming explosion'?

• Katherine Nelson

• Nelson Fenson

• Jean Piaget

• Jean Aitchison

What does MLU stand for?

• Milestone of Language Understanding

• Mean Length of Utterance

• Minimum Lexical Utterance

• Maximum Length of Understanding

Which of the following might be evidence of a child's misunderstanding of semantic meaning? (3 are correct)

• Breaking Grice's maxim of relevance

• ignoring/ not replying

• not complying

• phonological simplification

• grammatically incomplete sentence

What are the 4 categories that Elizabeth Spelke notes are part of a baby's core knowledge or principles for reasoning?

• cohesion, flexibility, changeability, movement

• cohesion, continuity, solidity, contact

• comprehensiveness, creativity, strength, motion

• colour, stability, smell, taste

Which is the order of development of semantic understanding and production, according to Jean Aitchison?

• Network Building, Packaging, Labelling

• Packaging, Labelling, Network Building

• Labelling, Packaging, Network Building