Children's Use of Gesture

question 35

Multiple Choice

Children's use of gesture:

• A) demonstrates the child's communicative interest prior to using formal language.
• B) has little relationship to the language development that follows.
• C) is formed by cultural and linguistic rules in his or her mother tongue.
• D) is an arbitrary form of using symbolic communication.

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