The acceptable sound combinations of a language are specified in its ________rules.

• grammatical
  
  

• syntactic
  
  
  

• inflection
  
  

• phonological

The position where thought patterns are influenced by language is called

• linguistic determination
  
  

• cognitive bias
  
  

• sociolinguistic genesis
  
  

• cultural tendency

Between months of age, most children begin to combine words into short sentences while speaking.

• 18 and 24
  
  

• 24 and 30
  
  

• 30 and 36
  
  

• 12 and 18

In speech, the smallest unit of meaning is

• morpheme
  
  

• syllable
  
  

• phoneme
  
  

• words

Which one of the following pair is least likely to be a correct match?

• Children enter in the world with certain knowledge about language- Chomsky

• Language and thought are initially two different activities - Vygotsky

• Language is contingent on thought- Piaget

• Language is a stimuli in environment- B F Skinner

'Thought not only determines language but also precedes it'. was an idea put forward by

• Vygotsky

• Jean Piaget

• Pavlov

• Kohlberg

Do children acquire language because they are genetically predisposed to do so or because parents intensively teach them from an early age?

This question essentially highlights

• whether development is a continuous process or discontinuous one?

• the influence of cognition on development of language

• the nature-nurture debate

• the discussion on development as a multi-factor ability

Which behaviourist considers that language is acquired like other behaviours through operant conditioning?

• Watson

• Skinner

• Guthrie

• Thorndike

9.

Language _______ thought processes.

• totally governs our

• has an influence on our

• cannot determine the

• does not influence the

Which of the following statements describes Piaget's and Vygotsky's views on language and thought correctly?

• According to Piaget, thought emerges first and according to Vygotsky, language has a profound effect on thought

• According to Vygotsky, thought emerges first and according to Piaget, language has a profound effect on thought 

• Both view thought as emerging from the child's language

• Both view language as emerging from the child's thought