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81)Which of the following illustrates an error of overregularization? A)”I spilled my joose.” B)”Allgone milk.” C)”I eated my breakfast.” D)”Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.” 82)”He gived me the toy” is an example of: A)universal grammar. B)overregularization. C)deep structure. D)use of syntax. 83)________ is defined as an innate mental module that allows young children to develop language if they are exposed to an adequate sampling of conversation. A)Communication B)Universal grammar C)Language acquisition device D)Deep structure 84)With respect to the acquisition of grammar, it is the view of linguist Noam Chomsky that: A)children are born with mental structures that facilitate language acquisition. B)the role of parents in the explicit instruction of grammatical rules has been underestimated. C)motherese is an essential ingredient in the acquisition of grammar. D)children acquire complete grammatical structure due to well-formed training. 85)Chomsky viewed language acquisition in children as being the result of: A)an innate language acquisition device. B)reinforcement by adults of correct language production. C)utilitarian learning, in which children learn that correct language produces desirable results. D)classical conditioning of innate utterances produced by infants and young children. 86)Infants as young as ________ can derive simple linguistic rules from a string of sounds. A)six weeks B)three months C)five months D)seven months 87)Researchers studying abandoned children living in Romanian orphanages found that those who were moved to good foster homes A)made insignificant gains when compared to the control group. B)by age 3 scored dramatically higher on IQ tests than those left behind. C)by age 4 scored dramatically higher on IQ tests than those left behind. D)by age 10 scored 10 to 20 points higher on IQ tests. 88)Professor Chung has designed a computer model to determine how children might be able to acquire linguistic features without an inborn language acquisition device. She is likely to view infants as: A)grammarians. B)lexicologists. C)psycholinguists. D)statisticians. 89)Psycholinguists have found evidence for all of the following EXCEPT: A)children combine words in ways that adults never would. B)adults consistently correct their children’s syntax. C)children in different cultures go through similar stages of linguistic development. D)children as young as seven months can derive simple linguistic rules. 90)Heritability is defined as a/an: A)interdisciplinary field of study concerned with the genetic bases of individual differences in behaviour and personality. B)process in which individuals with genetically influenced traits that are adaptive in a particular environment tend to survive and reproduce. C)statistical estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait that is attributable to genetic differences among individuals within a group. D)statistical estimate of the proportion of the total variance in some trait that is attributable to environment.