Title: Chapter 6 Quiz
Course: Intro Communication Disorder/Treat (SLPA 111-SLPA 111) > Section: Assessments

Q: In the longitudinal method, a large number of children are repeatedly observed over a relatively short time.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: Extended dialogue does not require topic maintenance.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: Chomsky suggested that the basic knowledge necessary to acquire language is already present when the child is born.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: Behavioral scientists suggest that learning plays a major role in the acquisition of verbal behaviors.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: A slow acquisition of words and word meanings is an early sign of a language disorder.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: The child with a language disorder is more likely to initiate conversation than to respond to questions.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: On the average, children produce their first words around their first birthday.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: Telegraphic speech omits grammatical features.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: Children acquire "what, where," and "who" question forms before "when, how," and "why."
- True
- False
A: True

Q: Preverbal behaviors precede the production of words and phrases.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: A trial (during treatment) is an opportunity to produce a correct target response.
- True
- False
A: True

Q: Expansions are a child’s elaborations of his or her own utterances.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: By the age of 18 months, most children are able to produce about
- 10 words
- 100 words
- 50 words
- 150 words
A: 50 words

Q: The first morpheme to be acquired is usually _____________________.
- prepositions
- articles
- possessives
- present progressive
A: present progressive

Q: While addressing young children, mothers use __________________.
- high-pitched voices
- greater pitch variations
- greater fluency of speech
- all of the above
A: all of the above

Q: Older children learn to produce complex and longer sentences by ___________________.
- the use of appositives
- elaborate subjects
- subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
- all of the above
A: all of the above

Q: ____________ is the production of a string of consonant–vowel combinations.
A: Babbling

Q: Speech that does not include required grammatical features is called _______________________.
A: telegraphic

Q: All grammatical morphemes are meaningful when produced alone.
- True
- False
A: False

Q: Negative sentences involve a semantic notion called negation.
- True
- False
A: True