Studies of the Ways in Which Children Learn Language Show

question 4

Multiple Choice

Studies of the ways in which children learn language show that:

• A)A language must be consciously taught;otherwise a child will not learn it.
• B)Children in different societies learn to speak their native languages at different ages because some languages are harder to learn than others.
• C)Formal education is required for a child to learn to speak his or her native language grammatically.
• D)Human beings have an inborn predisposition for learning language and will speak grammatically even if not taught to do so.
• E)Boys learn to speak much earlier than girls.

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Definitions:

Hypotheses Testing

A statistical method used to decide whether there is enough evidence to reject a null hypothesis, based on sample data.

First-Order Autocorrelation

The correlation between adjacent observations in a time series.

Multiple Regression

A statistical technique used to predict the outcome of a dependent variable based on two or more independent variables.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that there is no significant difference or effect, serving as a default position in hypothesis testing.