If Abraham Tells His Son,"No! Hot!" the Child Will Move

question 48

Multiple Choice

If Abraham tells his son,"No! Hot!" the child will move his hands away from the hot stove.However,the child cannot say,"Hot stove" himself.This demonstrates what principle of children's language development?

• A) Receptive language develops before expressive language.
• B) Children make rule-governed rather than random errors when learning language.
• C) Children respond to parents' intonational babbling.
• D) Holophrases are the precursor of the naming explosion.

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Definitions:

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