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WorksheetsCLA Meaning: Lexical, semantic and pragmatic development
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which researcher identified 4 categories that typified a child's first 50 words?
Katherine Fenson
Katherine Nelson
Jean Aitchison
Jean Paiget
What percentage (according to Nelson) are naming words in a baby's first words
40%
50%
60%
70%
What's the term for a form of words used to address a person such as that underlined here: Come here, Mummy!
holophrase
modifier
command
vocative
A child's productive vocabulary is larger than his/her receptive vocabulary
true
false
The 'naming explosion' takes place at about"
6 months
12 months
18 months
24 months
Which linguist described the 'naming insight' and the 'naming explosion'?
Katherine Nelson
Nelson Fenson
Jean Piaget
Jean Aitchison
What does MLU stand for?
Milestone of Language Understanding
Mean Length of Utterance
Minimum Lexical Utterance
Maximum Length of Understanding
Which of the following might be evidence of a child's misunderstanding of semantic meaning? (3 are correct)
Breaking Grice's maxim of relevance
ignoring/ not replying
not complying
phonological simplification
grammatically incomplete sentence
What are the 4 categories that Elizabeth Spelke notes are part of a baby's core knowledge or principles for reasoning?
cohesion, flexibility, changeability, movement
cohesion, continuity, solidity, contact
comprehensiveness, creativity, strength, motion
colour, stability, smell, taste
Which is the order of development of semantic understanding and production, according to Jean Aitchison?
Network Building, Packaging, Labelling
Packaging, Labelling, Network Building
Labelling, Packaging, Network Building
Which is the term for: using a more specific word to label a more general noun?
Over extension
Under extension
Virtuous error
Labelling
When a baby calls all fruit 'apples', which sort of over-extension is it?
analogical
categorial
predicate
When a baby points to a ball and says 'moon', what sort of over-extension is this?
categorical
analogical
predicate
When a child does not understand that a noun can be more than one thing - eg that a 'poodle' can be both a 'dog' and an 'animal', what is this called?
understanding of object permanence
theory of mind
whole object assumption
mutual exclusivity assumption
In the following semantic network, which noun is the hypernym: fork, knife, cutlery, teaspoon?
fork
knife
cutlery
teaspoon
An antonym is part of:
labelling
packaging
network building
What stage (according to Jean Piaget) is a child in from 0-2 years?
Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete operational
Formal operational
According to Piaget, when do abstract reasoning skills develop in children?
0-2 years
2-7 years
7-11 years
11+ years
Why might a young child not be capable of lying?
S/he hasn't developed the concept of whole object assumption
S/he hasn't developed the concept of mutual exclusivity awareness
S/he hasn't developed a theory of mind
S/he hasn't developed the concept of object permanence
Which of these is NOT one of Halliday's functions of children's speech?
heuristic
regulatory
interactional
influental
Which of Halliday's functions is when the child is using language to gain understanding of his/her environment?
instrumental
regulatory
interactional
personal
heuristic
What does CDS stand for?
Child Directed Speech
Child Development of Speech
Carer Direct Speech
Chomskian Developmental Studies
Which theory of CLA would see CDS as essential to the process of children's acquisition of language
Behaviourism
Nativism
Social Interactionism
Cognitive Theories
If parents correct their child's speech when s/he is at the holophrastic stage, the child's language development is likely to be (according to research done by Katherine Nelson)
faster
slower
What does the 'fis' phenomenon (Berko and Brown) show?
that babies' language reception is more developed than their production
that babies' language production is more developed than their reception
that babies can't pronounce the sound 'sh'
that babies don't like fish
