LING 352 Exam 1 Latest Update
Which best describes the relationship between phonological and lexical development?
A) Phonological development leads lexical development: children's first words are
composed of sounds within children's phonological inventory and children with larger
inventories usually have larger vocabularies.
B) Lexical development leads phonological development: as the size of children's
lexicons gets larger, they develop more precise phonology in order to distinguish among
the words
C) Both answers A and B are true: the relationship between phonological development
and lexical development is an interdependent one.
D) Neither answer A nor B are true: phonological and lexical development operate
wholly independently from each other
The development of phonology depends on:
A) Social and environmental factors almost exclusively
B) Biological and physical maturational factors almost exclusively
C) Both biological and environmental factors
D) Computational and linguistic factors almost exclusively
The content of infants' babbling is:
A) Influenced by the language the infant hears
B) Completely unrelated to language development
C) Not influenced by the language the infant hears until s/he is using words
D) The product of anatomical considerations
Phonotactics refers to:
A) Language specific constraints on the sequencing of sounds
B) The variation across languages in terms of sound inventories
C) The combination of consonants and vowels into syllables
D) The way speech sounds are used to form new words
Languages differ:
A) languages do not differ in their sounds.
B) only in terms of the inventory of sounds they use.
C) only in terms of which sounds to convey changes in meaning.
D) both in the inventory of sounds that they use and in terms of which sounds convey
changes in meaning