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Expected Communicative Intentions of Infants and Toddlers

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1-10.
1.

Which of the following is NOT an expected communicative intention of infants and toddlers?

a)

Requesting

b)

Greeting

c)

Calling

d)

Persuading

2.

When do children typically begin pointing to communicate?

a)

Just before saying the first word

b)

Near the 50-word mark

c)

Around 6 months of age

d)

When saying sentences

3.

What type of narratives would a typically developing 2-year-old tell?

a)

True narrative

b)

Sequenced narrative

c)

Proto-narrative

d)

Chain-link narrative

4.

Which of the following is an example of cohesion devices?

a)

Me, she, because

b)

Plot, character, setting

c)

Please, thank you

d)

Of, the, on

5.

Which cognitive skill reflects what a child has represented as knowledge in their mind?

a)

Sustained attention

b)

Behavior regulation

c)

Play

d)

Emotional regulation

6.

When does expository discourse develop?

a)

When a child has an MLU of approximately 2.5

b)

At the time for the first words

c)

School-age

d)

When the child has a near complete phonetic inventory

7.

What is a lexicon?

a)

Words stored in the long-term semantic memory

b)

Words stored in the short-term semantic memory

c)

Words stored in the long-term episodic memory

d)

Words stored in the short-term episodic memory

8.

Which type of word is typically learned most easily in the early years?

a)

Verbs

b)

Nouns

c)

Adjectives

d)

Prepositions

9.

Which of the following helps the child create new words by combining syllables?

a)

Phonological awareness - phoneme completion

b)

Phonological awareness - word blending

c)

Phonotactic probability

d)

Neighborhood density

10.

At what age does jargon typically begin to develop?

a)

6 months

b)

10 months

c)

15 months

d)

24 months

11.

How many words are in a typical 24-month-old's vocabulary?

a)

10-50 words

b)

50-100 words

c)

100-300 words

d)

500+ words

12.

Brown's stage III of development is from ages 36 to 42 months. What is the expected MLU-M range during this stage?

a)

1.5-2.0

b)

2.0-2.5

c)

2.5-3.0

d)

3.0-3.7

13.

Brown defined mastery of grammatical morphemes at what percentages?

a)

10%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

90%

14.

Which of the following does NOT define a late talker?

a)

Speaks fewer than 50 words

b)

Does not combine two-words

c)

More girls than boys are late to talk

d)

Also referred to as late language emergence

15.

Which of the following is a good measure of syntactic development?

a)

Mean Length of a child's sentences in morphemes

b)

Length of individual words in a sentence

c)

Mean number of words in a sentence

d)

Number of correct sounds in a word

16.

The following is what type of sentence? "My mom smiled when I cleaned up my room".

a)

Simple sentence

b)

Complex sentence

c)

Compound sentence

d)

Negative sentence

17.

Which of the following most accurately described vocabulary sizes?

a)

It is positively related to paternal language use and education

b)

It is positively related maternal language use and education

c)

It is negatively related to paternal language use and education

d)

It is negatively related to maernal language use and education

18.

During which stage are adults inferring communicative intent for unintentional behaviors?

a)

Perlocutionary stage

b)

Illocutionary stage

c)

Locutionary stage

d)

Postlocutionary stage

19.

Which of the following best describes referential children in terms of language learning?

a)

They demonstrate a slow and steady pace in word learning

b)

They learn and use language as holistic chunks

c)

They reach morphological and syntactic milestones sooner

d)

They have nominal accounting for less than half their lexicon