_________________ predominate in the first 50 words.

___________________ include reduplication, assimilation, CVCV constructions, open syllables, and consonant cluster reductions.

By age 2, a toddler has an expressive vocabulary of about _____ words.

_________________ are utterances that convey a holistic communication intention

____________________ such as panting like a dog, appear at about the same time as first words and develop in parallel for several months.

______________________ depict objects through actions, such as pretending to eat from an empty spoon.

The _________________ basis for cooperative communication is mainly joint attention.

Speakers use the ______________ function to make demands and requests, to protest, and to direct others.

The ______________ function is used to discuss entities and events and to ask for information

The______________ function is used to maintain communication by directing attention or by requesting additional or misinterpreted information.

At around age _________, a child begins to combine multiple intentions into a single utterance.

___________________ learning begins to increase slowly after the acquisition of about 100 words.

Mothers in the U.S. may modify word order to place ____________ in more prominent positions.

Children with a ______________ style have more adult contacts and use a bottom-up strategy to build utterances.

At what age can children segment verbs from fluent speech?

The _______________ hypothesis focuses on motion features rather than static perceptual features.

Formation of a link between a particular referent and a new name is called:

_____________________ consist of roughly equivalent words that divide an experience into multiple units.

High _____________ can result in more confusion and slower, less accurate recognition and production.

___________________ occur(s) when a child attempts a polysyllabic word but is unable to produce one of the syllables correctly.

The most frequent phonological process found in children under 30 months is _____________.

The negative effects of otitis media seen during early language development tend to resolve by age ___.

Both the quality and quantity of parent-child interaction decrease with __________________.

____________________ is detrimental to the learning of either language in bilingualism