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behaviorist learning theory

（）has been found to occur usually in children' s pronunciation or reporting of the truthfulness of utterances, rather than in the grammaticality of sentences.

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During the two-word stage of language acquisition, two-word expressions are absent of syntactic or morphological markers.

Despite the fact that children are still acquiring aspects of their native language through the later years of childhood, they are normally assumed to have completed the greater part of the language acquisition process by the age of （）.

In the（ ）stage, children begin to produce longer utterances with more complex grammatical structures.

Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.

Although they lack grammatical morphemes, t sentences in the multiword stage are not simply words randomly strung together, but follow the principles of sentence formation.

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telegraphic speech

Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.

Although they lack grammatical morphemes, t sentences in the multiword stage are not simply words that are randomly strung together, but follow the principles of sentence formation. 

In general, children have virtually acquired the basic fabric of their native language at the age of（ ）

By the time children are going beyond the（ ）stage, they begin to incorporate some of the inflectional morphemes. 

The utterances of children at early（）stage typically lack inflectional morphemes and most minor lexical categories.

When children's language develops towards the early（）stage, negative words occur at the beginning of expressions, for example, “No mitten,” “No singing song”.

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Children learn language by simply imitating the speech of the people around them.

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Like overt teaching, imitation plays at best a very minor role in the child's mastery of language.

Directions: Explain the following terms, using one or two examples for illustration.

telegraphic speech

Directions: Explain the following terms and give examples for illustration where appropriate.

behaviorist learning theory

Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put T for true or F for false in the bracket in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so and give the correct version.

Children learn language by simply imitating the speech of the people around them.

Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.

SLA is a general term that refers to the a of a second language.

Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.

​By the age of two and a half years, children's v is expanding rapidly and they are actually initiating more talks.

Directions: Fill in the blank in each of the following statements with one word, the first letter of which is already given as a clue. Note that you are to fill in ONE word only, and you are not allowed to change the letter given.

​Children's early words are simply a bunch of bare stems without a.