What Have Studies of the Acquisition of Questions and Negatives

question 48

Multiple Choice

What have studies of the acquisition of questions and negatives shown?

• A) Children do not typically produce utterances containing question words or negative markers until near school age.
• B) They are produced only after children have perfected auxiliary verbs and verb endings.
• C) Negative and question words emerge during the holophrastic stage.
• D) Initially children use a wh- word or negative markers (no, not) during the early telegraphic period.

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