Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Language and Communication

Key Terms Quiz


1		Human languages possess a creative aspect called infinite .


2		The study of basic speech sounds is .


3		is the study of a language's smallest units of meaning, or morphemes.


4		refers to the rules for combining words into acceptable phrases and sentences.


5		The sentence "The car looked at the mechanic." is semantically (correct/incorrect) even though it is syntactically (correct/incorrect).


6		Pragmatics deals with rules for the of language in an appropriate conversation and knowledge underlying the use of language in .


7		Speaking entails talking in a higher than normal frequency, higher than normal pitch, and using simple words in short sentences.


8		is rendering a child's incomplete sentence in a more complex grammatical form.


9		Restating a child's utterance in another, more sophisticated form is called .


10		The process of and playing word games may account for a large part of a child's early vocabulary.


11		Some researchers argue that all forms of gestures and pointing are aspects of a more general ability called .


12		Jerome Bruner argues that the sociocultural is fundamental to an understanding of children's language development.


13		During middle and late childhood, children make gains understanding , as evidenced by their use of comparative and subjective phrases.


14		For children who have attended bilingual education programs, the languages may share space in .


15		Communication is or socially based conversation.


16		is the understanding that language is a rule based system of communicating with others.

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