A Five-Year-Old Speaks Normally When Conversing with Parents, but She

question 174

Multiple Choice

A five-year-old speaks normally when conversing with parents, but she simplifies her speech when talking to the family's immigrant house worker. This shows that

• A)speech should be matched to the listener's comprehension.
• B)coos, babbles, and vocables are spoken prior to words.
• C)phonology refers to a language's basic sounds.
• D)syntactical bootstrapping improves comprehension.

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