A) have innate abilities to learn new words.
B) acquire new vocabulary by referring to one feature of the object.
C) focus on the newness of physical aspects of an object when they attach a label to it.
D) acquire new vocabulary according to social cognitive abilities.
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A) family size
B) age of first word
C) articulation abilities
D) phonological memory
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A) indicates that children learn words first and then apply them to concepts.
B) indicates that children learn concepts first and then apply words to them.
C) relies on the hypothesis that language and cognitive development are separate processes.
D) All of these answers are true.
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A) the effect of social economic status on children's language development is consistent throughout their development.
B) the amount of speech a child hears influences the rate of their vocabulary development.
C) birth order makes little difference in the rate of the child's growth in vocabulary knowledge.
D) education of the mother has minimal influence on the rate of the child's growth in vocabulary knowledge.
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A) more advanced children acquire the referential style first.
B) more advanced children acquire the expressive style first.
C) the referential/expressive distinction can be made if children's vocabulary is held constant.
D) None of the statements are true.
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A) in the same way across languages.
B) differently at each developmental stage.
C) in the same way at each developmental stage.
D) infrequently and are usually not predictable.
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A) similar to the way adults categorize.
B) according to the function of the object.
C) according to the appearance of the object.
D) in the same way regardless of age or developmental level.
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A) Lewis Carrol
B) Roger Brown
C) Letitia Nagles
D) Gelman & Taylor (1984)
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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.
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A) the set of words that a speaker typically uses.
B) the dictionary of words that a speaker typically uses.
C) the definitions of abstract words that people know.
D) a theoretical construct of how speakers understand words.
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A) individual differences in the children's development.
B) the language the caregivers provide.
C) whether the child learns analytically or holistically, on individual differences in children and on input that caregivers provide.
D) whether the child learns analytically or holistically.
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A) ways that researchers study the referential use of language.
B) how children learn through comparisons and contrasts.
C) how children learn language by contrasting word meaning used in a variety of contexts.
D) the fact that members of a language community share the same use of meaning of words and those different words carry different meanings with them.
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