Speech and language development Quizziz Questions Ch. 4-6
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______________________________ suggests infants use their sensitivity to the
acoustic properties of speech to make inferences about units of language. - ✔️✔️prosodic
bootstrapping
For prelinguistic infants, researchers generally use ____________________________
as a measure of language comprehension. - ✔️✔️visual fixation
According to the _____________________________, children must take strides to
engage in social interaction and then must put forth effort to construct linguistic
representations for the ideas they want to express and then act to express those ideas.
- ✔️✔️intentionality model
Researchers who study ___________________________ typically present auditory
stimuli to participants and measure their response to the stimuli. - ✔️✔️speech perception
________________________________ is the process through which professionals
provide children, adolescents, and adults with an enhanced language-learning
environment. - ✔️✔️enrichment
_____________________________ describes the process by which children use the
syntactic frames surrounding unknown verbs to successfully constrain or limit the
possible meanings of the verbs. - ✔️✔️syntactic bootstrapping
_____________________________ generally hold that much knowledge is innate and
genetically transmitted rather than learned by experience. - ✔️✔️nature-inspired theories
In ______________________________, experts compile data from multiple individuals
on a certain aspect of language development and chart the ages by which children meet
certain milestones. - ✔️✔️normative research
With ____________________________, children deduce grammatical structures by
using word meanings they acquire from observing events around them. - ✔️✔️semantic
bootstrapping
________________________________ are related to an individual's confidence with
language learning and his or her propensity to take risks with respect to language. -
✔️✔️affective principles
_____________________________ rest on the notion that humans gain all knowledge
through experience. - ✔️✔️nurture-inspired theories
______________________________ allow researchers to conduct direct, real-time
investigations of speech perception by identifying the exact areas of the brain where
speech perception occurs. - ✔️✔️brain-imaging studies
In ______________________________, behaviors that are reinforced become
strengthened, and behaviors that are punished become suppressed. - ✔️✔️operant
conditioning
The goal of __________________________ is to inhibit language difficulties from
emerging. - ✔️✔️prevention
______________________________ theories lie somewhere between the nature and
nurture ends of the continuum. - ✔️✔️interactionist
________________________________ describe the role of a person's native language
in simultaneously facilitating and interfering with second language acquisition. -
✔️✔️linguistic principles
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