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Chapter 10 Test Questions
Test QUestions for Owens Language Development, 8th edition
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Term

Figurative language is developed by school aged children; it primarily includes which of the following:

a.) Similes, proverbs and idioms
b.) Metonyms and metaphors
c.) A and B

d.) A only
e.) B only

Definition
C. A and B page 335
Term
T/F An event cast narrative is a story told about past occurrences
Definition
False Page 320
Term

“Are those cookies? I like cookies!” Spoken by a four year old child is an example of…
a.) Metaphoric transparency
b.) Figurative language
c.) Indirect request

d.) Taxonomic knowledge

Definition
C. Indirect Request (pg 330)
Term
1) At what age can a child know the right hand from the left but can not translate that to another person?
a.3
b.5
c.6
Definition
b p318

Term
1) At what age can a child know the right hand from the left but can not translate that to another person?
a.3
b.5
c.6
Definition
b.5 p.318
Term

Decentration is the ability to take the perspective of another person.

 

True/False

Definition
False p.320
Term
Derivational suffixes are:
a. keep the same word class
b. change the word class
c. none
Definition
b.change the word class p.340
Term

In what two ways does the ability to define words progress?

 

a. From definitions based on experience to more socially shared meanings
b. From definitions alone
c. Moving syntactically from single-word action definitions to sentences
d. Using Syntax for clues to word meaning
E. Both A and C



Definition
E. Both A and C
Term

"Chunking" semantically related information into categories is used for memory

 

True or False


 

Definition
True
Term
Children shift in linguistic processing from

a. reliance on surface to reliance on deep strategies
b. reliance on contextual to reliance on deep strategies
c. reliance on deep strategies to reliance on surface
d. reliance on surface to reliance on contextual

Definition
a. reliance on surface to reliance on deep strategies
Term
Preschool children tend to make judgment of utterance acceptability based on the _______ rather than on the ___________.
A. sound / production
B. content / grammatical structure
C. situation/ whole
D. production / sound
E. grammatical structure / content

Definition
B. content / grammatical structure
Term

Children use about and equal number of reversible and nonreversible passives.

A. True
B. False

Definition
A. True
Term
Children comprehend noun phrases ___________
A. at the same rate as verb phrases
B. sooner than verb phrases
C. after verb phrases
D. at a 15:1 rate when compared to verb phrases
Definition
B. sooner than verb phrases
Term
1. _______ is an explanation of some current or anticipated event and may be used to direct others in imaginative play sequences.

A. Accounts
B. Recount
C. Eventcasts
D. Stories

Definition
C. Eventcasts

Term
2. _____ are explanations of the complete episode or contain multiple episodes.

A. Complete episodes
B. Complex episodes
C. Interactive episodes
D. Abbreviated episodes

Definition
B. Complex episodes
Term
3. Which is not used during linguistic processing

A. Surface
B. Pragmatic
C. Deep
D. Contextual

Definition
B. Pragmatic
Term

1. The brain is nearly adult size by age and development is not complete

True
False

Definition
True
Term
2. The area of most dramatic growth during school-age and adult years is _________
a) Language
b) Inferred reality
c) Pragmatics
d) Both a & b
e) Both a & c

Definition
e) Both a & c *

Term
3. ________ reflect the storyteller’s experience
a) Narratives
b) Eventcast
c) Accounts
d) All of the above
Definition
d) All of the above
Term
1.) An inference about a problem based on appearances and internal information is which of the following?
a.) Transformational Thought
b.) Decentration
c.) Inferred Reality
d.) None of the above
Definition
c.) Inferred Reality
Term

2.) T/F- Indirect requests become part of a child’s pragmatic development after direct requests.

True or False

Definition
False
Term
3.) Code switching happens most frequently in which of the following?
a.) Narratives
b.) Interviews
c.) Conversations
d.) None of the Above
Definition
c.) Conversations
Term
1.) __________ is the ability to take the perspective of another person.
a. World knowledge
b. Nonegocentrism
c. Decentration
d. None of the above

Definition
b. Nonegocentrism
Term
2.) The following are genres:
a. stories
b. recounts
c. accounts
d. all of the above

Definition
d. all of the above
Term
3.) True or False: Children learn about narratives within their homes and language communities.

Definition
True
Term

1. In response to a request by an adult for information, a child will deliver ______.
A. an account
B. a recount

C. a story
D. an event cast

Definition
B. a recount
Term
2. ToM is closely related to the development of which
cognitive ability?
A. Centering
B. Generalization
C. Nonegocentrism
D. Decentration

Definition
C. Nonegocentrism
Term
3. _______ knowledge is related to a general ability to
interpret figurative language.
A. World
B. Word
D. Lexical
E. Grammatical
Definition
A. World
Term
T/F By graduation from high school a young adult may understand as many as 80,000 words as part of their semantic development.
Definition
True: Chapter 10, slide #34


Term
_____________ are dialogs that accompany familiar routines in the child’s everyday environment.
A. Plans
B. Scripts
C. Stories
D. Accounts
Definition
B. Scripts
Term
_____________ are dialogs that accompany familiar routines in the child’s everyday environment.
A. Plans
B. Scripts
C. Stories
D. Accounts
Definition
B. Scripts, Chapter 10, slide #16


Term

_____________ is when a child first adds features that are common to adult definition which is part of semantic development.

A. Story grammar
B. Slow mapping
C. Fast mapping
D. Decentration

Definition
B. Slow mapping, Chapter 10, Slide #35

Term
True or False. As a child moves syntactically from single-word actions to sentences expressing complex relationships may play a part in progress during the early school years?

Definition
True
Term
_______ is the extent of the literal-figuerative relationship.

Definition
B. Metaphoric transparency
Term
Passive sentences are troublesome for english-speaking children due to _________.

Definition
D. Syntactic form
Term
The 5‐year‐old can tell stories, has a budding sense of humor, and can tease and discuss emotions; however, by age 12 cognitive and language abilities almost equal those of a/an _________.
Definition
c. adult
Term
An 8‐year‐old’s topics are ____________; sustained ____________ discussions emerge around age 11.
Definition
b. concrete; abstract
Term
True/False: The early school age child’s peers, especially same‐gender peers become very important.


Definition
True
Term
1. True or False The temporal concept of periodicity develops after the locative.
Definition
True, bottom pg 332, slide 36 related by “spatial”

Term
2. The word ambiguities of “there, their, and they’re” are resolved by
Definition
c. declarative forms. pg 334, slide 40


Term
3. Of the four genres of narratives which, by definition, includes a problem or challenge?
Definition
d. stories, pg 320, slide 14 and 15

Term
1.Which of the following is NOT a component of story grammar:
A.Setting statement
B.Initiating event
C.Internal Plan
D.Character heightening

Definition
D.Character heightening (Table on Page 324)

Term
2.The narrative stories of African American children are seemingly ____________ in comparison to the narrative stories of European American children because they reflect the cultural expectation of African Americans for multi-event tales performed for enjoyment.
Definition
C.less organized (Page 326)

Term
3.In semantic development, a child progresses from definitions based on socially shared meaning to definitions based more on experience.

Definition
F. (Page 333)
Term
T/F By school age, most children can produce deictic terms (here, there) correctly.

Definition
True, book page 331

Term
__________ is the ability to take the perspective of another person.
A) Theory of Mind
B) Nonegocentrism
C) Egocentrism
D) Decentration

Definition
B) Nonegocentrism, book, 320


Term
When do metalingistic abilities emerge?
A) after a child has mastered a linguistic form.
B) it is innate in children.
C) after a child has mastered cognitive development.
D) when reading ability has increased.

Definition
A) after a child has mastered a linguistic form.
book 352
Term
1) Over half of the variance in school-age children's conversational skill can be accounted for by ________ effects.
a) genetic
b) age-related
c) environmental
d) generational

Definition
a) genetic. Page 319


Term
Figurative language enables the use of language in a truly creative way.

True or False
Definition
True. Page 335

Term
3) "A little furry cat" is an example of which type of noun phrase?

a) article + descriptor + adjective + noun
b) article + adjective + adjective + noun
c) article + preposition + descriptior + noun
d) article + adjective + descriptor + noun

Definition
b) article + adjective + adjective + noun
Page 341
Term
1. The ability to take the perspective of another person is known as _______.
A. Nonegocentrism
B. Decentration
C. Eventcase
D. Recount

Definition
A. Nonegocentrism
Term
2. ___________ are highly individualized spontaneous narratives in which children share their experiences and thus are not reporting information requested by adults.
A. Eventcast
B.Stories
C. Accounts
D. Recount

Definition
C. Accounts
Term
Idioms such as 'hold your tongue', are not metaphorically transparent.

True or False
Definition
FALSE (pg. 335)
Term
1. By age 12, a child’s cognitive and language abilities equal that of:
a. a teenager
b. an adult
c. a child
d. his or her peers

Definition
b. an adult. (slide 8)


Term
2. Story grammar typically consists of the:
a. setting
b. episode structure
c. reaction
d. both a & b

Definition
d. both a & b. (slide 20)



Term

3. As children get older, their use of style-switching becomes more pronounced.

True or False

Definition
True (slide 27)
Term
1. _________ is the process of moving from rigid, one-dimensional descriptions of objects and events to coordinated, multiattributional ones.
a. reccount
b. accounts
c. decentration
d. stories

Definition
c. decentration
Term
2. The _______ tells about past experiences.
a. eventcast
b. account
c. recount
d. story

Definition
c. recount
Term

3. Metaphoric transparency is the extent of the literal-figurative relationship.

True or False

Definition
True
Term
1) By what age is the child aware of their body?
a. 7
b. 13 when puberty hits
c. 5
d. There is no particular age it just happens

Definition
c. 5
Term

The child knows cause and effect by age 5.

 

True or False

Definition
True
Term
3) How does a child manipulate others
a. Language
b. Emotions
c. Pragmatics
d. Word play

Definition
a. Language
Term
1. _______ are highly individualized spontaneous narratives in which children share their experiences and are not simply reporting information requested by adults.
a.stories
b.scripts
c.eventcasts
d.accounts
e.none of the above
Definition
d.accounts . pg.320

Term

2.Taxonomies are categories of objects that share a common essence, such as trees or tools.

True or False

Definition
True pg. 333
Term
3.By high school graduation, a young adult may understand as many as:
a. 10,00
b.40,000
c.80,000
d.50,000
Definition
c.80,000. pg.332
Term
1. The early school-age years are characterized by growth in all aspects of language, although the development of ______ and ______ seems to be the most prevalent.
Definition
b. pragmatics; semantics
Term
2. The brain is nearly adult in size by the age ______, but development is not complete.
a. 5
b. 6
c. 7
d. 8

Definition
d. 8

Term

3. Decentration is the ability to take the perspective of another person.

 

True or False

Definition
False, that is nonegocentrism
Term
Pragmatic Development
Q1) The ability to take the perspective of another person is termed as?

a) Decentration
b) Nonegocentrim
c) Transformational
d) Objective

Definition
b) Nonegocentrim
Term
Semantic Development
Q2) True or False
The ability to define a childs word progression, is if the child can express themselves in a socially shared conversation with meaning?

Definition
True
Term
Semantic Developmemt
Q3) The extent of the literal-figuative relationship of a child affecting interpretation is called?

Definition
c) metaphoric transparency
Term
One of the four major cognitive developments between the age of 7 and 11 is transformational thought. This is defined as:
A. an inference about a problem based on appearances and internal information
B. the ability to consider several aspects of a physical problem at once
C. the ability to recognize that change can be undone of reversed
D. viewing a problem as existing in time and anticipating consequences

Definition
D. viewing a problem as existing in time and anticipating consequences
Term
Decentration is moving from rigid, _______ descriptions to coordinated, ________ ones. This allows partners to recognize that there are many dimensions and perspectives to a topic.
A. recounting, descriptive
B. spontaneous, narrative
C. one-dimensional, multi-attributional
D. none of the above

Definition
C. one-dimensional, multi-attributional
Term
True or False: By the time most children in the U.S. begin school, they are familiar with all forms of narration.
Definition
True
Term

1. _______ enable a child to recognize that change can be undone or reversed.

a) decentration
b) reversible mental operations
c) transformational thought
d) inferred reality

Definition
b) reversible mental operations
Term
2. Of the four basic narrative types, which best characterizes the following narrative: "You be the mommy and I'll be the daddy. I"m going to drive us to the store"

a) recount
b) accounts
c) eventcast
d) story

Definition
c) eventcast (p 320 defines the narrative types)


Term
3. T/F Dialogues that accompany familiar routines in a child's everyday environment are called scripts.

Definition
True (slide 16)
Term
1. Recounts refer to when children _________.

a. give an explanation of some current or anticipated event
b. tell highly individualized spontaneous narratives in which they share their experiences
c. talk about past experiences in which the child participated or observed
d. tell narratives that are fictionalized with seemingly endless content variation

Definition
c. talk about past experiences in which the child participated or observed
Term
2. An example of a metaphorically transparent idiom would be ________.

a. to beat a dead horse
b. to fly the coup
c. bite your tongue
d. fit as a fiddle

Definition
c. bite your tongue
Term
3. T/F Passive forms are easier for children to learn in non-Indo-European languages, such as Inuktitut, Sesotho, and Quiche Mayan.

Definition
True
Term
There are four major cognitive developments between the ages of 7 and 11. One of them is the ability to consider several aspects of a physical problem at once. This is called _____.
a. inferred reality
b. decentration
c. transformational thought
d. reversible mental operations
Definition
b. decentration. (Descriptions of each of these cognitive developments can be found on the bottom of page 318)


Term
Which of the following indicates semantic sophistication and depth of understanding?
a. semantic classes
b. the size of a child’s lexicon
c. synonyms homonyms and antonyms
d. a and b
e. a and c
Definition
e. a and c. An explanation can be found towards the top of page 332.


Term
The following is an example of which type of narrative? We got up early on Christmas morning. We lighted a tree. We opened gifts.
a. Descriptive sequences
b. Reaction sequences
c. Action sequences
d. Abbreviated episodes
e. Complete episodes
Definition
c. Action sequences. (Explanations of each type of episode can be found on pages 323 and 325.)

Term
Transformational thought is
a. Viewing a problem as existing in time and anticipating consequences
b. An inference about a problem based on appearances
c. Considering several aspects of a problem at5 once
d. The ability to perceive others’ intentions

Definition
a. Viewing a problem as existing in time and anticipating consequences
Term
T/F: The development of Theory of Mind helps to break down egocentrism.

Definition
True
Term
Which type of narrative tells about past experiences?
a. Eventcast
b. Account
c. Story
d. Recount

Definition
d. Recount

Term
1. Idiom learning is associated with familiarity and with reading and listening comprehension skills.

True or False
Definition
True
Term
2. _________ development is characterized by gradual increase in the length and complexity.
a) Syntactic
b) Pragmatic
c) Morphologic
d) Phonologic

Definition
a) Syntactic
Term
3. Interrogative forms are ____ difficult than declaratives, and negative forms are ____ difficult than positive forms.
a) more, less
b) more, more
c) less, more
d) less, less

Definition
b) more, more
Term
1.) Nonegocentrism is:
Definition
a.) the ability to take the perspective of another person
pg. 320

Term
2.) Two types of narrative genres are (pick two):
Definition
a.) Recount & d.) Story
pg 320


Term
3.) T or F: Story grammar encompasses the components and rules that form a narrative framework.

Definition
True pg. 323
Term
1. True or False: the area of most dramatic linguistic growth during the school-age and adult years is language form.

Definition
1. False - use
Term
2. Recount, eventcast, accounts, and stories are all apart of which type of story telling:
a. event script
b. narratives
c. autobiographies
d. conversational story telling
e. none of the above

Definition
b. narratives
Term
3. In conversation a school-aged child is able to
a. sustain a topic through several turns
b. introduce a topic
c. close a topic or switch the topic
d. all of the above
e. A and B


Definition
d. all of the above
Term
1. T/F: The area of most dramatic linguistic growth during the school-age years is pragmatics.

Definition
True
Pg. 319

Term
2. A _________ type of narrative tells about past experience in which a child participated or observed or about which a child read and is usually requested by an adult.

A. Story
B. Account
C. Recount
D. Restory
E. Eventcast

Definition
C. Recount
Term
3. Successful communication rests on the participants’ knowledge of _______, ________, and __________.

A. People, Objects, Feelings
B. People, Objects, Circumstances
C. People, Places, Objects
D. People, Relationships, Events
E. People, Relationships, Environments

Definition

D. People, Relationships, Events

Pg. 328

Term

1. Accounts and Stories are two types of narratives.

 

True or False

Definition
true pg 320

Term

2. Identify two ways that a resultant narrative can be described:
a. complex episodes and interactive episodes

b. internal episodes and setting episodes
c. direct consequences and reaction consequences
d. choices B&C

Definition

a. complex episodes and interactive episodes

pg. 323

Term
3. What does a story grammar in English and Western languages consist of?
a. plot and characters
b.setting and event
c.setting and episode structure
d. none of the above
Definition
c.setting and episode structure pg. 323
Term
T/F: By the age of 2 or 3 children have mastered some causal expressions and are able to construct coherent causal narratives
Definition
False; unable to construct coherent causal narratives
Term
Metaphoric transparency directly affects the ease of
a) Idioms
b) Language
c) Interpretation
d) Both a and b
e) Both a and c
Definition
c) Interpretation
Term
What is the predominant form of noun phrase?
a) Article + adjective+ noun
b) Article+ descriptor+ noun
c) Article+ noun+ prepositional phrase
d) Article+ verb+ noun
e) All of the above
f) A, b and c
Definition
f) A, b and c
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