SLHS 4520 EXAM 3 LATEST QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
ANSWERS
In the first year of infant development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Motor -> pragmatics -> cognitive ->
phonological
How long does single word period extends from? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅12 months-2 years
How many utterances are there when the expressive vocabulary reaches 50 words - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Utterances into 2 and 3 word utterances
Perlocutionary stage (preparing the first year) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Birth-8 months
What happens during the perlocutionary stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Eye contact, turn taking,
and joint attention
Illocutionary stage (Intent to Communicate) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-8-12 months
What happens during the illocutionary stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Gestures and jargon
Locutionary stage (The First Word) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-12 months and beyond
What happens during locutionary stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Utterance of first true word
(phonological & semantics)
To be considered a TRUE word, what must the child's utterance must do? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅-Have phonetic relationship to an adult word
-Must be used consistently
-Must occur in the presence of the referent (implies an understanding of the concept of meaning)
,What happens during 15-24 months of age? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-50 word lexicon
-Word learning is slow in the first half of the second year and then rapidly increases in the second half of
the year
-At this point of 50 word acquisition, "word spurt" occurs and two word combinations occur
What happens during 18-24 months of age? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Vocabulary spurt, naming
insight, nominal insight, or naming exploration
-It refers to a rapid increase in the number of words a child learns and uses
What do first words contain? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅One or two syllables
-VC, CV, CVCV, reduplicated CVCV
-Few CVC words, if there's a final consonant, will likely delete or add a vowel at the end
What do first lexicons include? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Most frequent among first 10 words:
Animals, food, toys
-First words usually apply to midlevel generality and larger categories
What are predominate in the first lexicon? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Nouns, most are persons or
animals within the environment or objects the child can manipulate
Specific nominals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Specific names
General nominals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅General names
Action words - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Describe actions
Modifiers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Qualities of things
, Personal-Social words - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social expressive words (please)
Function words - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Items that serve a grammatical function (what, is, for)
What percent are specific nominals? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅14%
What percent are general nominals? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅51%
What percent are action words? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅14%
What percent are modifiers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅9%
What percent are personal-social words? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅9%
What percent are function words? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅4%
Child who learn Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Kaluli, German, Italian, Hebrew, and Turkish are known to
have more what than other word classes in their early lexicon - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Nouns
Nouns - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Down
Verbs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Up
What do concrete nouns promote? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅More rapid learning as they allow for
greater transparency of the mapping between lexical and semantic information
What is bootstrapping? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Refers to the child's use of known information to
infer unknown information
-Learning nouns helps you learn verbs
ANSWERS
In the first year of infant development - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Motor -> pragmatics -> cognitive ->
phonological
How long does single word period extends from? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅12 months-2 years
How many utterances are there when the expressive vocabulary reaches 50 words - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Utterances into 2 and 3 word utterances
Perlocutionary stage (preparing the first year) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Birth-8 months
What happens during the perlocutionary stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Eye contact, turn taking,
and joint attention
Illocutionary stage (Intent to Communicate) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-8-12 months
What happens during the illocutionary stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Gestures and jargon
Locutionary stage (The First Word) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-12 months and beyond
What happens during locutionary stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Utterance of first true word
(phonological & semantics)
To be considered a TRUE word, what must the child's utterance must do? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅-Have phonetic relationship to an adult word
-Must be used consistently
-Must occur in the presence of the referent (implies an understanding of the concept of meaning)
,What happens during 15-24 months of age? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-50 word lexicon
-Word learning is slow in the first half of the second year and then rapidly increases in the second half of
the year
-At this point of 50 word acquisition, "word spurt" occurs and two word combinations occur
What happens during 18-24 months of age? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Vocabulary spurt, naming
insight, nominal insight, or naming exploration
-It refers to a rapid increase in the number of words a child learns and uses
What do first words contain? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅One or two syllables
-VC, CV, CVCV, reduplicated CVCV
-Few CVC words, if there's a final consonant, will likely delete or add a vowel at the end
What do first lexicons include? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅-Most frequent among first 10 words:
Animals, food, toys
-First words usually apply to midlevel generality and larger categories
What are predominate in the first lexicon? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Nouns, most are persons or
animals within the environment or objects the child can manipulate
Specific nominals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Specific names
General nominals - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅General names
Action words - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Describe actions
Modifiers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Qualities of things
, Personal-Social words - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Social expressive words (please)
Function words - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Items that serve a grammatical function (what, is, for)
What percent are specific nominals? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅14%
What percent are general nominals? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅51%
What percent are action words? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅14%
What percent are modifiers? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅9%
What percent are personal-social words? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅9%
What percent are function words? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅4%
Child who learn Mandarin, Chinese, Japanese, Kaluli, German, Italian, Hebrew, and Turkish are known to
have more what than other word classes in their early lexicon - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Nouns
Nouns - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Down
Verbs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Up
What do concrete nouns promote? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅More rapid learning as they allow for
greater transparency of the mapping between lexical and semantic information
What is bootstrapping? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Refers to the child's use of known information to
infer unknown information
-Learning nouns helps you learn verbs
