Five-Year-Old Samantha Often Modifies the Complexity of Her Speech When

question 83

Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Samantha often modifies the complexity of her speech when talking with her classmate Georges because he is just learning English.The development of which of the following accounts for the shift in her speech pattern when speaking to Georges?

• A)syntactical bootstrapping
• B)vocable knowledge
• C)taxonomic constraints
• D)pragmatic knowledge

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