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51) Successful communication a. rarely requires nonverbal information from the speaker. b. depends mainly on the literal and accurate interpretation of words. c. depends exclusively on language content. d. depends on the reasoning abilities of the listener. 52) Using the word hee-haw to describe the sound that a donkey makes is an example of a. a morphological marker. b. anomia. c. onomatopoeia. d. a dialect. 53) The textbook authors note that the word for mother in most languages begins with an “m” or “n” sound. They speculate that this may be because a. they all derive from the Latin word mater. b. these are the most common phonemes in all languages. c. all languages have the same origin. d. these phonemes tend to be the first that children acquire. 54) Words that use the “sn” sound sequence and are nose-related, such as sneeze, snort, snooze, and snot are referred to as a. onomatopoeia. b. morphemes. c. phonemes. d. phonesthemes. 55) A collection of words such as slide, slip, slick, slid, sled, and slippery are an example of ____________. a. phonemes b. morphemes c. holophrases d. phonesthemes 56) Juanita read the children’s story No Such Things repeatedly to her daughter Aliquandra when she was in the womb. Once Aliquandra was born, Juanita noticed that her daughter sucked on her pacifier much more when she would read No Such Things to her relative to other stories. What is the best explanation for why this occurs? a. Babies prefer novel stimuli and tend to pay less attention to stories that they have heard repeatedly. b. Babies can hear inside the womb and are able to recognize songs or stories once they are born. c. Babies respond to the sound of their mother’s voice only, and do not show preference for stories. d. Babies prefer melodic sounds relative to other noise and display more activity to rhyming stories. 57) The best predictor of whether someone will achieve fluency in a second language is a. the simplicity of the second language’s structure. b. IQ. c. motivation. d. age of acquisition. 58) Using the ________ paradigm, researchers have found that infants can recognize sounds to which they were exposed in utero. a. Cat in the Hat b. habituation c. high-amplitude sucking d. auditory cliff 59) Babies can hear inside the womb a. no earlier than the seventh month. b. by the fifth month. c. only after the sixth month. d. by the second month. 60) Newborn infants show a preference for a. their mother’s native language. b. the English language. c. any language if it is spoken by a familiar voice. d. the Spanish language.