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81) Dr. Speecher wants to examine whether there are differences in language development between bilingual and monolingual children. He found that bilingual children do show some delay in ____________ but do not demonstrate impairments in _____________. a. vocabulary development; syntax b. phonestheme development; vocabulary c. syntax; vocabulary development d. vocabulary; phonestheme development 82) Which of the following individuals would most likely be able to learn a second language more easily than the others? a. 27-year old Zeke who speaks Italian and is trying to learn Spanish. b. 14-year old Carlos is trying to learn English and has only spoken Spanish until that point. c. 9-year old Chantelle speaks French and needs to learn Japanese because her family is moving to Japan. d. 5-year old Luca is an English speaker being taught German as a second language. 83) Susan would like for her child to learn a second language. If she wants the child to be fluent in the second language, research suggests that she should begin instruction no later than age a. five. b. three. c. ten. d. seven. 84) ____________ provide(s) an example where children appear to develop their own system of communication that are often a combination of basic language components and invented components. a. Cryptophasia b. Homesign c. Phonesthemes d. Covert speech 85) Language acquisition in humans is typically marked by a(n) ___________ period, rather than a __________ period. a. holographic; cryptophasic b. sensitive; critical c. phonemic; morphemic d. imitative; generative 86) Some believe that twins often share a secret and distinct language. Research suggests that a. the secret language of twins is referred to as homesign. b. Cryptophasia is a true phenomenon for roughly half of all twins studied. c. most twins develop language more quickly than singletons, leaving them free to develop new languages. d. twins may be more susceptible to language delays, which appear to some observers as distinct language forms. 86) Which of the following negates a purely behaviourist view of language acquisition? a. Observational learning b. Generativity c. Social pragmatics d. Operant conditioning 87) The language acquisition device is to ______________ as the social environment is to ______________. a. the nurturist view; the nativist view b. the social pragmatics account; the imitation account c. the nativist view; the social pragmatics account d. the imitation account; the nativist account 88) Allowing an infinite number of unique sentences to be created from combining our symbols in novel ways refers to a. semanticity. b. generativity. c. displacement. d. syntax. 89) The _______ account of language acquisition posits that children are born knowing how language works. a. nurturist b. nativist c. environmentalist d. gestaltist 90) This account of language acquisition posits that children infer what language means based on the context, including interactions with others. a. Social stigmatics b. Social pragmatics c. Nativist d. Nurturist