CSD 333 Exam 2 || Correctly Answered Questions.
Many major infant developmental milestones have to do with mobility and physical
development. (T or F) correct answers True
Infants at 0 months are capable of making speech sounds. (T or F) correct answers False
Normally developing babies, including the baby in the video examples, show active play
behavior at 3 months, such as manipulating objects and putting them in their mouths. (T or F)
correct answers False
At 6 months, many infants typically are just beginning to have enough balance skill and
muscle tone to sit up on their own. (T or F) correct answers True
Infants by 9 months will typically have started walking. (T or F) correct answers False
At about 12 months it is expected that infants should be able to stand on their own, or else
they may be developing atypically. (T or F) correct answers False
Infants have trouble saying /g/ and /k/ sounds, and these sounds tend to come out at /d/ and
/t/. (T or F) correct answers True
Why are newborn infants unable to produce speech sounds? correct answers Their breath
support is not sufficient for spoken language, their oral cavity is the wrong shape for speech
and is instead specialized for feeding, and the cartilages surrounding the vocal folds are
disproportionately large for the vocal tract at birth
Approximately how old are infants when they begin to produce full, canonical syllables?
correct answers 5-10 months
Which of the following are typical signs of social engagement at about 7-8 months? correct
answers Eye contact with others and imitation
By age 5 months, joint attention is well established. (T or F) correct answers False
The emergence of language requires that infants develop intersubjective awareness. (T or F)
correct answers True
Mirror neurons are a part of the motor cortex thought to be important for learning through
imitation, including learning of language. (T or F) correct answers True
Which of the following is a best practice for caregivers to promote language? correct answers
Following a child's lead and attentional focus AND expanding a child's communicative
attempts with additional commentary
Research studies do not suggest overwhelming support for the use of media, including
educational DVDs, to promote language learning. (T or F) correct answers True
Infants take statistics on the sounds in their language and use this information to construct
phoneme categories. (T or F) correct answers True
, As infants progress through their first year, they specialize in the sounds of the language they
are learning, gaining sensitivity to some aspects of sound and losing sensitivity to others. (T
or F) correct answers True
Which of the following are true statements about toddlers' first words? correct answers
Children say their first word typically around when they turn 1 year of age
The two-word stage occurs around 24 months (2 years) and marks the beginning of syntax. (T
or F) correct answers True
Toddlers begin to use gestures with consistent meanings starting around 12 months of age. (T
or F) correct answers True
Three-year-old children will typically have mastered around 10 phonemes. (T or F) correct
answers False
Suppose a child says "Mewy had a wittle wamb" instead of "Mary had a little lamb". Which
of the following kinds of substitution patterns does this correspond to? correct answers
Gliding
Suppose a toddler says "detto" instead of "gecko" and says "dunty doo" instead of "gunky
goo". Which of the following kinds of substitution patterns does this correspond to? correct
answers Fronting
Suppose a child says "nana" instead of "banana". Which of the following kinds of patterns
does this correspond to? correct answers Weak syllable deletion
How many of the grammatical morphemes described by R. Brown (1973) will have toddlers
typically acquired by 36 months? correct answers 5
What is the typical age of appearance of the possessive 's inflectional morpheme as in "baby's
bib"? correct answers 31 to 34 months
In the sentence "Jan baked cookies at home last Sunday" what is the theme? correct answers
Cookies
Boys often lag girls in language development. (T or F) correct answers True
Which of the following permit a comprehensive evaluation of language? correct answers
CELF-Preschool 2
During the preschool years children begin to produce contextualized language, which is a
particularly important ability for success in school. (T or F) correct answers False
Letters for which the name of the letter (such as "B") contains the sound the letter makes
(such as "buh") are learned earlier than letters for which this is not true. This is called the
_____________. correct answers Letter-name pronunciation effect
Children naturally focus on words on a printed page. (T or F) correct answers False
Many major infant developmental milestones have to do with mobility and physical
development. (T or F) correct answers True
Infants at 0 months are capable of making speech sounds. (T or F) correct answers False
Normally developing babies, including the baby in the video examples, show active play
behavior at 3 months, such as manipulating objects and putting them in their mouths. (T or F)
correct answers False
At 6 months, many infants typically are just beginning to have enough balance skill and
muscle tone to sit up on their own. (T or F) correct answers True
Infants by 9 months will typically have started walking. (T or F) correct answers False
At about 12 months it is expected that infants should be able to stand on their own, or else
they may be developing atypically. (T or F) correct answers False
Infants have trouble saying /g/ and /k/ sounds, and these sounds tend to come out at /d/ and
/t/. (T or F) correct answers True
Why are newborn infants unable to produce speech sounds? correct answers Their breath
support is not sufficient for spoken language, their oral cavity is the wrong shape for speech
and is instead specialized for feeding, and the cartilages surrounding the vocal folds are
disproportionately large for the vocal tract at birth
Approximately how old are infants when they begin to produce full, canonical syllables?
correct answers 5-10 months
Which of the following are typical signs of social engagement at about 7-8 months? correct
answers Eye contact with others and imitation
By age 5 months, joint attention is well established. (T or F) correct answers False
The emergence of language requires that infants develop intersubjective awareness. (T or F)
correct answers True
Mirror neurons are a part of the motor cortex thought to be important for learning through
imitation, including learning of language. (T or F) correct answers True
Which of the following is a best practice for caregivers to promote language? correct answers
Following a child's lead and attentional focus AND expanding a child's communicative
attempts with additional commentary
Research studies do not suggest overwhelming support for the use of media, including
educational DVDs, to promote language learning. (T or F) correct answers True
Infants take statistics on the sounds in their language and use this information to construct
phoneme categories. (T or F) correct answers True
, As infants progress through their first year, they specialize in the sounds of the language they
are learning, gaining sensitivity to some aspects of sound and losing sensitivity to others. (T
or F) correct answers True
Which of the following are true statements about toddlers' first words? correct answers
Children say their first word typically around when they turn 1 year of age
The two-word stage occurs around 24 months (2 years) and marks the beginning of syntax. (T
or F) correct answers True
Toddlers begin to use gestures with consistent meanings starting around 12 months of age. (T
or F) correct answers True
Three-year-old children will typically have mastered around 10 phonemes. (T or F) correct
answers False
Suppose a child says "Mewy had a wittle wamb" instead of "Mary had a little lamb". Which
of the following kinds of substitution patterns does this correspond to? correct answers
Gliding
Suppose a toddler says "detto" instead of "gecko" and says "dunty doo" instead of "gunky
goo". Which of the following kinds of substitution patterns does this correspond to? correct
answers Fronting
Suppose a child says "nana" instead of "banana". Which of the following kinds of patterns
does this correspond to? correct answers Weak syllable deletion
How many of the grammatical morphemes described by R. Brown (1973) will have toddlers
typically acquired by 36 months? correct answers 5
What is the typical age of appearance of the possessive 's inflectional morpheme as in "baby's
bib"? correct answers 31 to 34 months
In the sentence "Jan baked cookies at home last Sunday" what is the theme? correct answers
Cookies
Boys often lag girls in language development. (T or F) correct answers True
Which of the following permit a comprehensive evaluation of language? correct answers
CELF-Preschool 2
During the preschool years children begin to produce contextualized language, which is a
particularly important ability for success in school. (T or F) correct answers False
Letters for which the name of the letter (such as "B") contains the sound the letter makes
(such as "buh") are learned earlier than letters for which this is not true. This is called the
_____________. correct answers Letter-name pronunciation effect
Children naturally focus on words on a printed page. (T or F) correct answers False
