The Fact That Between 6 to 12 Months of Age

question 20

Multiple Choice

The fact that between 6 to 12 months of age, young children begin to differentiate the sounds of phonemes of their native language and lose the ability to differentiate the sounds of other phonemes that they were previously able to make, is best considered as an example of how

• A)learning interacts with biology during language acquisition
• B)childhood language development can be viewed as a special case of the representativeness heuristic
• C)language skills develop in parallel with motor skills
• D)the formation of mental representations influences language development

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