LD_Summary

The sensitive period is similar for all areas of language (phonology, syntax, lexicon, etc.).

• True

• False

An example of “overextension” is:

• “book” for books, magazines, atlases

• “book” for Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment

Multiple answer question: Universal Theory (Werker & Tees) states that

• infants have innate ability to roughly partition sounds into categories

• infants have innate ability to discriminate all phones in all languages

• infants lose ability to discriminate phones not meaning-relevant in own language

• predicts that L2 learners cannot learn ‘foreign’ phonemes

• predicts that L2 learners can learn ‘foreign’ phonemes with enough input

Statistical learning is specialized for learning language and does not work for learning other things

• True

• False

Statistical learning studies usually use natural speech so that the studies are ecologically valid

• True

• False

The "Logical Problem of Language Acquisition" assumes that children receive explicit instruction in language from their caregivers

• True

• False

Children aged 5 may still be using phonological processes in their pronunciations like cluster reduction or substitution

• True

• False

Writing "ghoti" to spell the word "fish" shows that young writers are very smart because there is a rare type of fish in Antarctica called "ghoti".

• True

• False

Pronouncing “rabbit” as “wabbit” is an example of:

• stopping

• gliding

• voicing

• cluster reduction

• unstressed syllable deletion

Which is NOT typical of babbling BEFORE 6 months:

• raspberries

• back vowels (u, o, a)

• strings of CV syllables (bababa, badigu)

• dynamics of sound (low, high, soft, loud)