Studies of a Wide Variety of Language Communities Have Revealed

question 41

Multiple Choice

Studies of a wide variety of language communities have revealed that

• A) Asian children skip the prelinguistic phase.
• B) Western children tend to use language before they understand it.
• C) the prelinguistic phase is identical in all language communities.
• D) there is no set pattern for language development.
• E) all language development is genetically programmed.

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