According to Noam Chomsky, humans have an innate ability to understand and produce language through
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Language Development
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- Multiple ChoiceIn the context of language development, overregularization occurs because children:7views
- Multiple ChoiceIn the context of language development, the meaningless speechlike sounds uttered by infants, such as dadada, are called:25views
- Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following statements about language loss is true?20views
- Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following best describes what research on infants' recognition of language sounds demonstrates?10views
- Multiple ChoiceApproximately how many words does the average adult English speaker know?29views
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Which of the following correctly summarizes what we currently understand about infant’s phoneme discrimination abilities?
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Which of the following is an example of overregularization?
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Which developmental stage occurs in infancy and involves combining consonant and vowel sounds.
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The idea of a sensitive period for language learning was first introduced as a part of which theory of language acquisition?
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In order for people to be able to tell you how many televisions they have in their house, they would probably use a(n)
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When people think, they often have _____ in their minds.
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PET scans show areas of the _____ being activated during the process of forming an image.
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_____ form as the result of people's experiences with concepts in the real world.
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Whether a whale is a fish or a mammal is an example of a
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