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Early interaction between a child and a caregiver provides the contexts for the child to acquire language. Both the child and caregiver make unique contributions to the dialogue. This chapter explores how children approach the learning of language and how they are helped by their environment and specifically their communication partners.

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Question 11.
There are a number of presumed universal language learning strategies of children in terms of syntax. Among them are

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Question 12.
The knowledge making up scripts for a child's routine activities comes primarily from


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Question 13.
Caregivers use a higher pitch as well as a more exaggerated range of pitch and intensity when talking to toddlers. This aspect of motherese is characteristic of which aspect of language?


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Question 14.
When a caregiver practices 'extension' in interacting with a young child, he/she


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Question 15.
The strategies of language development called 'prompting' are those things used by whom to facilitate language development

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Question 16.
In American culture a young child and his/her language skills carries what sort of stature within the family and society at large?


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Question 17.
Sometimes babies use a chunk of language as one whole 'package' such as 'want it'. This is known as the use of


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Question 18.
Taxonomic knowledge used by the child consists of


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Question 19.
The 'whole object principle' means that a given word simply refers to the whole entity and not part of it. This strategy is used by young children to learn

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Question 20.
Expansion is what the caregiver does with a young child's utterance that


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Question 21.
Bootstrapping is a strategy used by children to apply what they know about language so far to help them learn more about language. This strategy is most likely used by children of what age?

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Question 22.
In American culture, caregivers regardless of gender or age engage in motherese when interacting with infants and toddlers.


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Question 23.
Caregivers do not need to adjust their behaviors to maintain the child's attention during interactions because young children are 'hard wired' to continue paying attention to their caregivers during their wake times.


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Question 24.
Caregivers engage in reformulations and recasts of a child's utterance in order to redirect the cognitive focus of the interaction.

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