When Is an Elicited Production Method Useful for Studying Infants

question 13

Multiple Choice

When is an elicited production method useful for studying infants' language development?

• A) It is useful when the language constructions tested might be rare or absent in diary data.
• B) It can use words invented by the experimenter to be certain that the child is not simply imitating something he or she heard before.
• C) It can be used to study the rules that children understand about grammatical forms in their language.
• D) All of the above.

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