Language learning/ acquisition

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1. What is the high amplitude sucking technique primarily used for?

  • Testing infants understanding of words
  • Infant phonetic discrimination
  • The segmentation problem
  • Prenatal learning
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2. In the experiment by Stager & Werker (1997), what sounds could 14 month old infants discriminate?

  • lif vs neem
  • bih vs dih
  • fee v dee
  • All of the above

3. Which solution states that infants prefer speech that exaggerates prosody?

  • Phonotactic constraints
  • Prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis
  • Motherese
  • Isolated words hypothesis

4. There is evidence that we have a learning acquisition device (LAD) in our brains

  • False- the brain is not specialised in any way to learn language
  • False- our brain is adapted to learn language as it learns facts
  • True

5. Which solution is that infants use familiar sounds of words to figure out their start and end?

  • Motherese
  • Isolated words hypothesis
  • Prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis
  • Phonotactic constraints

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