Children Overgeneralize the Rules of the Grammar That Guide Their

question 152

Multiple Choice

Children overgeneralize the rules of the grammar that guide their spoken language,resulting in speech language errors.The predictability of these errors illustrates an important point regarding language development,namely that language development:

• A)comes about mainly through imitating adult Forms of speech.
• B)is primarily a matter of memorizing appropriate speech sounds and then repeating them.
• C)is a hit-or-miss enterprise;children acquire language largely through trial and error.
• D)is guided by implicit grammatical rules that children use to produce new sentences and verbal constructions they've never heard before.

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