In Evaluating the Idea That Children Learn Language Through Imitation

question 171

Multiple Choice

In evaluating the idea that children learn language through imitation, which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

• A) Children are able to understand sentences they have never heard before.
• B) The number of possible novel sentences is too large to ever learn by imitation and memorization alone.
• C) Children are able to generate sentences they have never heard before.
• D) Children rarely make overregularization errors.

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