One Possible Explanation for Girls Being Ahead of Boys in Language

question 52

Multiple Choice

One possible explanation for girls being ahead of boys in language progress is

• A) that parents use more child-directed speech with their infant daughters than their infant sons.
• B) a biological advantage in earlier development of the left hemisphere of the cerebral cortex.
• C) that female infants initiate more "conversations" with caregivers than male infants.
• D) that adults reinforce female infants more than male infants when they begin to coo and babble.

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