Research on Strategies for Word Learning Indicates That Young Children

question 83

Multiple Choice

Research on strategies for word learning indicates that young children

• A) learn to speak grammatically because these types of statements will effectively communicate their desires and needs.
• B) use different syntactic structures to associate vocabulary words with objects.
• C) develop specialized linguistic processing skills that enable them to analyze speech and detect semantic relationships.
• D) figure out the meanings of words by contrasting them with words they already know and assigning the new label to a gap in their vocabulary.

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