Twelve-Year-Old Cade Is Able to Produce All of the Sounds

question 55

Multiple Choice

Twelve-year-old Cade is able to produce all of the sounds of speech and construct complete, accurate, meaningful sentences but struggles with taking turns in a discussion, recognizing humor and figurative language. He is having communication difficulty in the area of

• A) phonology.
• B) semantics.
• C) morphology.
• D) pragmatics.

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