Child Language Acquisition Quiz

What is the term for the omission of sounds or syllables which are present in a word?

• Elision

• Utterance

• Deixis

• Modality

Which term refers to fillers that give us time to think and/or to announce that we are thinking?

• Clashing

• Phatic communication

• Non-fluency features

• Paralinguistic features

What is the term for dialogue that follows a set pattern of an utterance from one speaker and a response from another?

• Adjacency pairs

• Turn taking

• Back-channel

• Pause

Which term describes the perceived position of a person's authority and influence in relation to those around them?

• Status

• Modality

• Hedges and vague language

• Repairing

What is the term for unspoken elements of communication such as body language, gestures, and facial expressions?

• Phatic communication

• Paralinguistic features

• Prosodic features

• Elision

Which term refers to the tone, pitch, speed, stress, volume, and pauses in speech?

• Prosodic features

• Non-fluency features

• Phatic communication

• Elision

Which term is used to describe the polite 'ice-breakers' used when greeting people to initiate a conversation?

• Phatic communication

• Adjacency pairs

• Modality

• Turn taking

What ability have studies shown newborns possess regarding language?

• They can talk in full sentences.

• They can recognize their mother's language.

• They can only produce crying sounds.

• They can differentiate between all languages equally.

What term describes a single word that expresses a complete thought during the holophrastic stage?

• Monologue

• Reduplication

• Holophrase

• Telegraph

During the post-telegraphic stage, children begin to use which of the following?

• Only nouns

• Simple commands

• Connecting words (e.g., "and," "if")

• Single-word expressions