PRAXIS SLP study questions Set 3

When a child says "red crayon," which type of semantic relationships are represented?

You have been asked to give a workshop to a group of parents of infants who attend a developmental nursery. The parents are interested in what they can do to communicate more successfully with their infants. Most of the infants are between 1 and 10 months of age. Most of the parents do not have much money or access to toys and objects but you are told tht they do spend plenty of time with their babies. You were asked to speak about what specifically parents can to to successfully interact with their infants in daily routines such as bathing, dressing, and eating. What do you tell the parents?

A. When your baby starts to cry, let him do so for 5-10 minutes before you respond; this will teach the baby independence and motivate him to express himself in words later on (instead of crying)
B. Increase the baby's rudimentary turn-taking skills by responding to his vocalizations and playing games such as peek-a-boo.
C. Ideally, speak to the baby in utterances that are higher pitched and have greater pitch fluctuations that ordinary speech
D. B, C
E. A, B, C

List three semantic categories used by a young child.

A child using recurrence would say:

A. "More cookie."
B. "Doll mine."
C. "Face dirty."
D. "Close door."
E. "All gone juice."

Children may vary in terms of the rate with which they develop the morphemes, but children usually develop them in the same sequence.

A. True
B. False

One of the last morphemes to develop, in Stage V of Brown's Morphemes is uncontractible copula (e.g., "There it is").

A. True
B. False

According to Brown, the first morpheme to develop is presnet progressive (e.g., "Dad cooking").

A. True
B. False

Use of narratives, a form of discourse in which a speaker tells a story and use of appropriated cohesion, or the locial order and organiztion of utterances in a message are a part of which component of language.

A. Synatax
B. Phonology
C. Semantics
D. Pragmatics
E. Morphology