_________ is the first set of sounds (burping, crying) that the infant (0-2 months) makes.

When the infant repeatedly produces the same consonant-vowel combination, this is referred to as:

__________ babbling occurs between 12 and 18 months, and is marked by the infant's production of of long strings of syllables, and more varied stress and intonation patterns.

________ starts to develop in the two-word stage when the child speaks like a telegram, using mostly nouns and verbs.

When a child uses the word 'dog' to refer first to a soft-toy dog then for a woolen scarf, a cat, a fur coat the child is using:

The child who uses muffin to refer to both blueberries and to blueberry muffins, but not to other types of muffins is exhibiting which two of the following?

______________ is exhibited when a child 5 uses 'Bubby' (the family’s baby talk word for his brother) to refer first to his brother then to his 3 year old boy cousin and the little boy next door.

The child shows his/her intention to communicate from as early as:

Cooing is usually understood as the production of _____.

In the 0-2 stage of language communication, the perlocutionary stage occurs during what ages?

The smallest meaningful unit of language is known as a _____.

Although there may be exceptions, the speech directed to babies in most languages is produced at higher than normal pitch levels.

When a caregiver speaks to an infant, she does so without expecting that there will be some kind of response.

Researchers have noted that some mothers treat the burps or smiles of their infants as though they are intentional messages.

Joint reference is a basis for shared experience and a necessary aspect of infant development including language acquisition.

According to Hart and Risley (1995), the amount that parents speak to their children is not related to the variation in children’s IQ and language abilities.

Phonotactic rules specify which sounds can occur in a sequence.

Deictic gestures signify some features of an object or its function.

Protoimperatives describe when children point to the objects or events of focus by the child and adult.

Identify the sentence which had a contractible copula.

Based on the Pivot-Open Grammar, the utterance 'big baby' exhibits which of the following combinations?

An example of Open Open, two word combination according to the Pivot Open Grammar would be:

The name most associated with the stage development theory of language acquisition is:

The pronouns is the sentence 'She loves me' can be described as the _______________ and ____________ pronouns: