Which of the Following Statements About Infants' Early Word Production

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about infants' early word production is NOT true?

• A)The proportion of nouns in very young children's vocabulary is related to the proportion of nouns in their mothers' speech to them.
• B)The rate of vocabulary development is associated with the amount of speech infants hear.
• C)One-word utterances typically have the same meaning as adults' single words.
• D)Highly educated mothers have children with larger vocabularies than those of children of less-educated mothers.

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