If You Were to Compare Adult Speech with the Speech

question 179

Multiple Choice

If you were to compare adult speech with the speech of infants under 4 months of age you should expect to find that

• A) infants produce more morphemes than adults do.
• B) adults are capable of producing more phonemes than infants are.
• C) infants distinguish more phonemes than adults do.
• D) adults and infants both use the same number of phonemes.

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Definitions:

Hypoblast

The layer of cells inside the blastocyst (an early stage of the embryo), which contributes to the formation of the yolk sac and is involved in early embryonic development.

Epiblast

A layer of cells derived during the early development of an embryo, giving rise to all three primary germ layers.

Fertilization

Process that begins with the penetration of the secondary oocyte by the spermatozoon and is completed with the fusion of the male and female pronuclei.

Implantation

The process by which a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterus, beginning the stages of pregnancy.