首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What happened to the child in Frederick Ⅱ’s experiment?
What happened to the child in Frederick Ⅱ’s experiment?
admin
2009-06-24
19
问题
What happened to the child in Frederick Ⅱ’s experiment?
Is language a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the experiment of Frederick II in the 13th century it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent. All the infants died before the first year.
Today no such drastic deprivation exists. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant. There are critical times when children learn more readily. If these sensitive periods are neglected and the ideal time for acquiring skills passes, they might never be learned so easily again.
Linguists suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and utters vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about Man’s brain is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy-bear with the sound pattern "teddy-bear". And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the hubbub of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in novel ways.
But speech has to be triggered, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child. Insensitivity of the mother dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal cues is essential to the growth and development of language.
选项
A、The child’s brain was damaged.
B、The child died.
C、The child kept silent.
D、The child heard no mother tongue.
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DKUd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
HumanandCultureHumanbeingsareanimals.Webreathe,eatanddigest,andreproducethesamelifeprocessescommontoal
SystemofCriminalTrialHowefficientisoursystemofcriminaltrial?Doesitreallydothebasicjobweaskofit—convi
MobilePhonesMobilephonesshouldcarryalabeliftheyprovedtobeadangeroussourceofradiation,accordingtoRobertBe
FinancingCollegeTrainingHighschoolstudentswho,aftergraduation,wouldliketocontinuetheireducationarefrequently
The1960’ssawachangeintheformandcontentofmovies,treatingsubjectsthatforsomanyyearswereconsideredtaboo.
FasterEffectiveReadingAhigherreadingrate,withnolossofcomprehension,willhelpyouinothersubjectsaswellasin
Ihadsomedifficultyincarryingouttheplan.
Accordingtotheauthor,whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue?Theword"tricks"attheendofParagraph2isclosestinm
BusTravelNowandThenNobody,exceptperhapslittlechildren,considersajourneyinabusasexcitingexperience.Althoug
Manhasthreebasicneeds:food,shelterandclothing.
随机试题
火焰原子化过程中,火焰温度越高,会使被测元素原子化数增多,有利于原子吸收的测定。
简述生物技术药物稳定性研究内容。
患者有冠心病史8年。症见:心胸疼痛剧烈,如刺如绞,痛有定处,伴胸闷,日久不愈,舌暗红苔薄,脉弦涩。其病机是
下列各项,对诊断肝性脑病最有意义的是
胃溃疡手术方式多选用
决定建筑物价格的最基本因素是()。
你是一名新录用的公务员,有群众聚集上访,有人对你说不关你的事,你怎么办?
收藏黄金的人,念念不忘的是金子的货币价值。1816年,英国开始实行金本位,多数资本主义国家也于19世纪70年代后相继实行。问题是,_____________?工业革命中黄金战胜其他贵金属成为货币,或许恰恰和它的产量有关。19世纪之前的数千年中,人类总共生产
投掷一枚硬币三次,观察三次投掷出现正反面情况,比如一种可能结果为HTT(表示第一次出现的是正面,第二次和第三次出现的都是反面).事件A表示恰好出现两次正面,写出A中所包含的所有可能结果;
以下关于拒绝服务攻击的叙述中,不正确的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)