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The document discusses language acquisition in children. Some key points: 1) Children progress through predictable stages in acquiring language skills like using grammatical morphemes, negation, and question words. 2) There are different theories around how children learn language, including innatist, interactionist, and behaviorist perspectives. 3) Children's language development involves imitation, practice with adults, and innate linguistic abilities and principles. By around age 2, most children can produce 30 words and ask simple questions. Their language acquisition follows consistent developmental patterns.

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The document discusses language acquisition in children. Some key points: 1) Children progress through predictable stages in acquiring language skills like using grammatical morphemes, negation, and question words. 2) There are different theories around how children learn language, including innatist, interactionist, and behaviorist perspectives. 3) Children's language development involves imitation, practice with adults, and innate linguistic abilities and principles. By around age 2, most children can produce 30 words and ask simple questions. Their language acquisition follows consistent developmental patterns.

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Final Exam

Language acquisition

1- Are the following sentences true or false:


1- Language acquisition is an important aspect of human development. ( )
2- The earliest vocalizations for infants are not the voluntary crying. ( )
3- Children cannot hear the differences between sounds. ( )
4- At 12 months, most babies can produce a word or two. ( )
5- Researchers have found that 14 grammatical morphemes were acquired in the same
sequence. ( )
6- Children learn the function of negation very late. ( )
7- Sentences like ‘Mummy Juice’ are called telegraphic. ( )
8- By age of two children can produce about 30 words. ( )
9- Children do not use temporal adverbs such as tomorrow until they develop some
understanding of time. ( )
10- Children distinguish the voice of their mother before they were born. ( )
11- Children acquire the correct use of irregular plurals very early. ( )
12- Children who had mastered the grammatical morphemes at the top had also
mastered those at the bottom. ( )
13- Negation is expressed by the word ‘no’. ( )
14- There is predictable order in which the ‘wh- words’ emerges. ( )
15- ‘whassat?’ is a part of chunk. ( )

2- Choose the correct answer:


1- The ability to use question words is partly tied to children_________ development.
a. Word b. cognitive c. language
2- By age of ____ most children can ask questions, give commands.
a. 4 b. 5 c. 6
3- The_________ viewed imitation and practice as the primary processes in language
development.
a. Innatist b. interactionist c. behaviourism
4- Chomsky argued that all human language are based on_______ universal
principals.
a. Important b. innate c. amazing
5- CPH is often linked to ___________
a. Innatist b. interactionist c. behaviourism
6- The best-known figure of behaviourist theory is __________
a. Chomsky b. BF Skinner c. Piaget
7- Children appear to imitate ___________.
a. Selectively b. randomly c. simply
8- The innatist perspective is related to _____________
a. Chomsky b. BF Skinner c. Piaget
9- For Chomsky language acquisition is very___________
a. Similar b. different c. important
10- Interactionist perspective is related to __________
a. Chomsky b. BF Skinner c. Piaget and Vygotsky

11- Vygotsky observed the importance of____________ that children have with adults.

a. imitating b. interaction c. conversation

12 – all second language learners have acquired at least_______ language.

a. One b. two c. three

13- Young second language learners are allowed to be ______ until they are ready to
speak.

a. Silent b. talking c. singing

14- older second language learners are often forced to _________

a. Speak b. silent c. imitate


15 most ___________children would be able to correctly interpret the grammatical
sentences and recognize the ungrammatically of the others.
a. Pre school b. school aged c. 4 year

3- Match the following:

1- Stage 1 1 the negation element is inserted into a more complex


sentence.
2- Stage 2 2 negation is expressed by the word ‘no’
3- Stage 3 3 children begin to attach the negative element to the
correct form of auxiliary.
4- Stage 4 4 subject may be included.

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