According to Research Presented in the Text, If You Compared

question 51

Multiple Choice

According to research presented in the text, if you compared the language acquisition patterns of children raised in poverty to those of children raised by middle-income parents, you would expect that the children raised in poverty would:

• A) have smaller vocabularies
• B) babble about 3 months later
• C) utter their first words about 3 months later
• D) be much more likely to use telegraphic speech, and for a longer period of time

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