Expected Communicative Intentions of Infants and Toddlers

Which of the following is NOT an expected communicative intention of infants and toddlers?

• Requesting

• Greeting

• Calling

• Persuading

When do children typically begin pointing to communicate?

• Just before saying the first word

• Near the 50-word mark

• Around 6 months of age

• When saying sentences

What type of narratives would a typically developing 2-year-old tell?

• True narrative

• Sequenced narrative

• Proto-narrative

• Chain-link narrative

Which of the following is an example of cohesion devices?

• Me, she, because

• Plot, character, setting

• Please, thank you

• Of, the, on

Which cognitive skill reflects what a child has represented as knowledge in their mind?

• Sustained attention

• Behavior regulation

• Play

• Emotional regulation

When does expository discourse develop?

• When a child has an MLU of approximately 2.5

• At the time for the first words

• School-age

• When the child has a near complete phonetic inventory

What is a lexicon?

• Words stored in the long-term semantic memory

• Words stored in the short-term semantic memory

• Words stored in the long-term episodic memory

• Words stored in the short-term episodic memory

Which type of word is typically learned most easily in the early years?

• Verbs

• Nouns

• Adjectives

• Prepositions

Which of the following helps the child create new words by combining syllables?

• Phonological awareness - phoneme completion

• Phonological awareness - word blending

• Phonotactic probability

• Neighborhood density

At what age does jargon typically begin to develop?

• 6 months

• 10 months

• 15 months

• 24 months