1) Which theory of CLD claims children develop linguistic competence alongside their conceptual understanding? 2) A child says 'timney' instead of 'chimney'. What type of phonological simplification does this demonstrate? 3) A child says 'runned' instead of 'ran'. What is this process called? 4) What do the initials LAD stand for? 5) Who refined Chomsky's Nativist theory by suggesting a 'critical period' for language development? 6) A child refers only to her own shoes as 'shoes' and not to describe any others. What process is this? 7) Which theory of CLD claims children learn language primarily through imitation and reinforcement? 8) A child says 'pider' instead of 'spider'. What is this process called? 9) What do the initials LASS stand for? 10) Who was Jim? What might he be used to prove? 11) Which theory of CLD claims children are born with an innate ability to acquire language? 12) A child says 'nana' instead of 'banana'. What type of phonological simplification does this demonstrate? 13) Explain the idea of 'universal grammar'. 14) Which theory of CLD claims children learn language through social exchanges? 15) Who was Genie? What might she be used to prove? 16) Who studied children's first 50 words? 17) A child say 'puter' instead of 'computer'. What is this process called? 18) A child refers to apples, oranges and marbles as 'ball'. What process does this demonstrate? 19) Which theorist is associated with the ZPD? 20) What do the initials ZPD stand for? 21) Give two features of child directed speech. 22) Name any two of Michael Halliday's pragmatic functions of children's language. 23) Who researched 'Wugs' What does the 'Wug test' demonstrate? 24) A child who says 'Me like ice-cream' is at which stage of Bellugi's taxonomy? Explain why. 25) Changing a word's morphology (structure) to show a change in tense, number or person is called 'i........'?

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