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LANGUAGE

DEVELOPMENT
PRAXIS QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1

• A baby, Jason, is looking at the family cat. His grandma sees him
looking at the cat and directs her gaze toward the cat. She prepares to
comment about the cat. Jason’s grandma is
a) Using presupposition
b) Following Jason’s line of regard
c) Intuiting Jason’s thoughts about cats
d) Preparing to use a holophrase
QUESTION 1

• B.
• Presupposition: Pragmatics: Presupposition is the assumption that the
listener knows or does not know certain information that a child, as
speaker, must include or delete from the conversation.
• Holophrase: Holophrases convey a holistic communicative intention
using a single word. At about 18 months, many children combine words
or holophrases.
QUESTION 2

• In order to produce 2-word combinations, how many words does a


toddler need to have in their expressive vocabulary?
a) 50
b) 20
c) 10
d) 100
QUESTION 2

• A.
• By 18 months, the toddler possesses a lexicon of about 50 words, with
nouns predominating.
• Between 18 and 24 months, most children experience a “vocabulary
spurt.”
• Tremendous vocabulary expansion occurs around age 2 ½.
• 2‐year‐olds with larger vocabularies are also grammatically precocious.
QUESTION 3

• A young child who says ‘my doggy’ or ‘her ball’ is using what type of
semantic relationship?
a) Recurrence
b) Possession
c) Location
d) Denial
QUESTION 3

• B
• Request or describe the recurrence of objects or events, using words
such as more, ’gain, and ’nother.
QUESTION 4

• A young child who says ‘down’ when a cup of juice spills off the table is
using what type of semantic relationship?
a) Action
b) Possession
c) Locative action
d) Attribute
QUESTION 5

• You are asked to work with a 3 and a half year old child whose language has been
somewhat slow to develop. Matthew is the youngest of four children, and his parents
tell you that his older siblings often talk for him. After assessing his language, you find
that he consistently uses the following morphemes: present progressive, prepositions
in and on, and regular plural –s. His parents would like to enroll him for therapy
because they want him to go to a local preschool and sound like the other kids. Which
of the following morphemes would you begin with when Matthew starts therapy?
a) Possessive-s
b) Irregular past tense
c) Articles the, a, an
d) Contractable auxiliary
QUESTION 5

• B
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QUESTION 6

• You are observing a child and clinician in a private practice setting. The clinician
specializes in child language disorders. When you observe the clinician, you see that
he has a well-structured reward system for the child. The child receives a fruit loop for
each correct response they make. The clinician has written down a specific behavior
with a percent accuracy. For example, when presented with a picture of 2 or more
objects, Jimmy will label the picture using plural –s 80% of the time. This clinician
probably subscribes to which theory of language development?
a) Information processing
b) Behaviorist
c) Social interactionist
d) Universal Grammar
QUESTION 6

• B
• What is information processing?
• What is social interactionist?
• What is universal grammar?
QUESTION 7

• Which of the following Piagetian stages, which includes object


permanence, corresponds with the emergence of a typically developing
child’s first word?
a) Preoperational
b) Formal operations
c) Sensorimotor
d) Concrete operations
QUESTION 7

• C
• Children use their first word between 10 and 14 months of age, which
corresponds to the sensorimotor cognitive development stage.
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QUESTION 8

• A child says ‘red crayon.’ This is an example of which type of semantic


relationship?
a) Attribute + entity
b) Action + locative
c) Agent + action
d) Attribute + locative
QUESTION 9

• An example of a sentence using an embedded form would be which of


the following?
a) The boy who got a haircut looks nice.
b) The girl ate a cookie, three crackers, and some fruit.
c) Mom and Dad are going to the store to buy some groceries.
d) Because he was on time, they were happy with him.
QUESTION 9

• A
• Embedding refers to adding or arranging elements within sentences.
The phrase ‘who got a haircut’ makes the sentence one that uses an
embedded form.
• Most 4‐year‐olds can produce multiple embeddings within a single
sentence.
QUESTION 10

• A mother comes to you because her son Jake was born prematurely and had
to spend the first few months of his life in neonatal intensive care unit. Now
Jake is 9 months old and his mother wants to make sure his language
development is on track. As you evaluate Jack you need to remember that
one of the following does NOT occur between 8-10 months in typically
developing children. Which one is it?
a) Comprehension of no
b) Using the phrase all gone to express negation
c) Using variegated babbling
d) Uncovering a hidden toy
QUESTION 10

• B
• Using phrases such as all gone occurs between 1 and 2 years of age to
express negation.
QUESTION 11

• You are conducting an assessment with a kindergartener who has


difficulty with work endings. He omits endings like -est or -ily. What
aspect of language is he having difficulty with?
a) Syntax
b) Pragmatics
c) Semantics
d) Morphology

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