WorksheetsExpected Communicative Intentions of Infants and Toddlers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 12mins
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
How many words are in a typical 24-month-old's vocabulary?
10-50 words
50-100 words
100-300 words
500+ words
Brown's stage III of development is from ages 36 to 42 months. What is the expected MLU-M range during this stage?
1.5-2.0
2.0-2.5
2.5-3.0
3.0-3.7
Brown defined mastery of grammatical morphemes at what percentages?
10%
50%
75%
90%
Which of the following does NOT define a late talker?
Speaks fewer than 50 words
Does not combine two-words
More girls than boys are late to talk
Also referred to as late language emergence
Which of the following is a good measure of syntactic development?
Mean Length of a child's sentences in morphemes
Length of individual words in a sentence
Mean number of words in a sentence
Number of correct sounds in a word
The following is what type of sentence? "My mom smiled when I cleaned up my room".
Simple sentence
Complex sentence
Compound sentence
Negative sentence
Which of the following most accurately described vocabulary sizes?
It is positively related to paternal language use and education
It is positively related maternal language use and education
It is negatively related to paternal language use and education
It is negatively related to maernal language use and education
During which stage are adults inferring communicative intent for unintentional behaviors?
Perlocutionary stage
Illocutionary stage
Locutionary stage
Postlocutionary stage
Which of the following best describes referential children in terms of language learning?
They demonstrate a slow and steady pace in word learning
They learn and use language as holistic chunks
They reach morphological and syntactic milestones sooner
They have nominal accounting for less than half their lexicon
