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Course Introduction
Speech and Language Pathology is a comprehensive course that explores the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan. Students will examine the anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing mechanisms, language development, and the neurological bases of communication. The course also covers various speech, language, voice, fluency, and hearing disorders, alongside evidence-based intervention strategies. Ethical considerations, multidisciplinary collaboration, and the impact of cultural and linguistic diversity on communication are discussed to prepare students for future clinical practice or advanced study in the field.
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Language Development 4th Edition by Erika Hoff
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Study of Language Development
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Q1) Behaviorism refers to the study of: (WWW)
A) changes in children's behavior.
B) how children behave.
C) language behavior.
D) how behavior changes in response to occurrences in prior behavior.
Answer: D
Q2) Researchers agree that language development is a:
A) socially learned behavior defined by a child's social or cultural community.
B) complex system that maps sounds, or oral language, to meanings.
C) result of a device in the human brain that takes information from the environment and uses it to produce language.
D) None of these answers are true.
Answer: D
Q3) Studies of babies listening to nonsense syllables demonstrated that babies:
A) can distinguish phonological differences in utterances.
B) can process patterns of sounds in utterances.
C) evelop rules for receptive communication.
D) All of these answers are true.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Biological Bases of Language Development
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Q1) Research on split-brain patients:
A) demonstrates that language is impaired when the corpus collosum is severed.
B) provides evidence on how individuals with impaired communication develop language skills.
C) provides information on how each side of the brain performs language functions.
D) indicates that language is primarily stored on the right side of the brain.
Answer: C
Q2) Neural plasticity means:
A) parts of the brain are able to take over functions that they would normally not serve.
B) all parts of the brain are equally capable of performing all functions.
C) individual parts of the brain rejuvenate after injury.
D) the brain becomes more flexible with increasing age.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Communicative Development: Foundations and Functions of Language
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Q1) Children's ability to sustain dialogue with contingent utterances:
A) seems to parallel increased use of memory skills
B) emerges at two years of age.
C) occurs at specific developmental stages.
D) is dependent on the nature of adult input.
Answer: A
Q2) Young children use speech acts at the one-word stage:
A) with different functions from adults.
B) in a wider range than adults.
C) eith similar functions as adults.
D) None of these answers.
Answer: C
Q3) Children expand their use of language functions:
A) at a slow rate between 10 and 22 months of life.
B) at a faster rate when given increased attention.
C) by using a greater number of linguistic forms and a grater range of intentions in the second year of life.
D) by using less linguistic forms and a greater rate of intentions in the second year of life.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Phonological Development: Learning the Sounds of Language
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Q1) Research on phonological development:
A) substantiates the behaviorist view that parents form the child's language and speech by reinforcing their attempts to communicate.
B) suggests that behaviorism accounts for the role of maturational processes in child development.
C) supports aspects of the behaviorist approach to explaining the adult's role in child phonemic skill development.
D) adopts the behaviorist approach to describing language knowledge and language development.
Q2) In writing, the use of an alphabet to represent exactly how words are pronounced, rather than how words are represented, is called:
A) phonetic spelling
B) phonemic transcription
C) phonological rules
D) phonetic features
Q3) Discuss how adults acquire phonological knowledge about language. Identify features of the underlying phonological structure as well as how phonotactics and phonological rules contribute to their understanding.
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Chapter 5: Lexical Development: Learning Words
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Q1) Researchers propose that the referential/expressive difference in child vocabulary development is:
A) a result of the frequency with which mothers use particular sets of words.
B) a factor related to the child's cognitive ability.
C) a result of emphasis placed in the child's language on personal/social words.
D) related to the gender of the child.
Q2) The taxonomic assumption is a principle in the study of the word learning process that:
A) relates to how children learn to categorize nominals.
B) illustrates how children learn new words in relation to words they have already used. C) refers to how children classify words into categories and adjust their categories as they develop.
D) refers to how children map a new word onto a related referent.
Q3) Describe the content of children's first 50 words and discuss the relationship between the children's vocabulary development and cognition.
Q4) Describe the research on how children acquire their first words. Include a discussion of evidence on referential word use.
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Chapter 6: The Development of Syntax and Morphology:
Learning the Structure of Language
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Q1) The innate grammar position on language development suggests that:
A) there is an innate syntactic knowledge and language specific learning procedures that are the basis for language development.
B) the innate desire to interact with others forms the basis for language development.
C) children are born with a set of words that they use in language development.
D) None of these answers are true.
Q2) The characteristic that humans have the capacity to produce and understand an infinite number of novel utterances is known as:
A) language development.
B) language system knowledge.
C) generativity of language.
D) None of these answers are true.
Q3) Children's comprehension of structured speech is:
A) measured in terms of MLU by most researchers.
B) acquired on the same continuum as the production of speech.
C) difficult to measure because of the nature of children's response to stimuli.
D) examined with a broad range of measurements.
Q4) Describe the stages of grammatical development in early multiword utterances.
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Chapter 7: Language, Culture, and Cognition in Development
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Q1) Discuss research on analogical reasoning and describe how it relates to questions regarding language as the medium of thought.
Q2) That language is a medium for thought is a view supported by:
A) Jean Piaget
B) Dan Slobin
C) Lev Vygotsky
D) Benjamin Whorf
Q3) Describe how cultures differ in how language is used with children. Define the term language socialization and tell how it is used in this context.
Q4) Further studies on how languages encode cognition focus on A) noun phrases.
B) syntactic complexity.
C) verbs of motion.
D) semantic expressions.
Q5) Theory of mind researchers used the story of Little Red Riding Hood to examine A) childhood expectations.
B) the age at which children can project what may or may not happen in a story.
C) childhood perspective on events in a story.
D) beliefs children hold and that guide behavior.
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Chapter 8: Childhood Bilingualism
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Q1) Morphosyntactic differentiation is an issue at the heart of bilingualism research because:
A) children mix the two languages in a variety of manners.
B) evidence indicates that children mix lexical items in stages that predict proficiency in both languages.
C) morphology and syntax vary across languages.
D) children are exposed to models with a range of levels of language proficiency.
Q2) Studies regarding cognitive consequences during the 1930's and 1940's focused on:
A) genetic inferiority or superiority of immigrants.
B) poor performance of bilingual immigrants in schools.
C) questions about brain functioning.
D) All of these answers are true.
Q3) Identify the different ways that second language acquisition is different from first language acquisition and how outcomes are different for the learner.
Q4) Describe what language differentiation is and how it occurs in early childhood stages.
Q5) Discuss how cultural perspective influences bilingual language development.
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Chapter 9: Language in School Years
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Q1) Children entering middle childhood have:
A) mastered most phonology and continue to develop articulation of multisyllabic words.
B) continued needs to develop phonology.
C) completed their phonologic development.
D) an increased ability to articulate specific speech sounds.
Q2) When young children are at the early stage of discourse-level development, they have difficulties using:
A) cohesive devices such as "and," "because," and "so."
B) pronouns
C) descriptives
Q3) Anglin's 1993 study about word formation processes indicates that
A) children increase their use of idioms greater than their use of derived words.
B) use of literal compounds stays the same between third and fifth grades.
C) morphological knowledge has limited relationship to increased vocabulary knowledge.
D) children's most dramatic increase in vocabulary reflects their skills in using knowledge of root words and affix meanings.
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Chapter 10: Language Development in Special Populations
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Q1) Children who are described as having specific language impairment (SLI) have:
A) cognitive delays or disorders.
B) sensory delays or disorders.
C) limited language development in a variety of areas.
D) All of these answers are true.
Q2) Two areas of language development that are strengths for children with Down syndrome are:
A) narrative discourse and conversation.
B) lexical development and communicative development.
C) communicative development and narrative discourse.
D) communicative development and pragmatic development.
Q3) In identifying a child with SLI, a commonly used criterion is that the child is at least ______________ behind in productive language and ______________ behind in comprehension.
A) two years; one year
B) one year; one year
C) one year; six months
D) six months; one year
Q4) Compare and contrast language development in individuals who are lower functioning and those who are higher functioning with autism.
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