Author Question: According to the discussion of child-directed speech, a. adults who use child-directed speech ... (Read 131 times)

Alygatorr01285 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

According to the discussion of child-directed speech,

a. adults who use child-directed speech tend to make language acquisition somewhat easier for children.
b. adults who use child-directed speech actually make language acquisition more difficult for children.
c. unfortunately, fathers are not skilled in using child-directed speech.
d. unfortunately, older children are not skilled in using child-directed speech.

Question 2

Chapter 13 discussed research about whether 12- to 18-month-old children can learn language by watching a DVD. The DVD shows a household object, while a voiceover says the object's name.

According to the results, children learned significantly more words
a. if the children watched the video by themselves, compared to a control group that had no video.
b. if the parent taught the child the words, compared to the child learning the words from the video.
c. if the parent watched the video and interacted with the child, compared to the child just watching the video.
d. if the child was in the control group, without any video or teaching; their vocabulary actually increased as much as when children's parents taught them the words.