Beginning at About a Year and a Half, Young Children's

question 10

Multiple Choice

Beginning at about a year and a half, young children's vocabulary acquisition increases rapidly in bursts. This phenomenon is known as

• A) the semantic explosion.
• B) the protodeclarative burst.
• C) the naming explosion.
• D) conceptualization abundance.

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Definitions:

Nominal Variables

Categories of data that cannot be quantifiably ranked or ordered, serving as labels or names for distinguishing attributes.

Chi-Squared Test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant association between two categorical variables.

Nominal Variables

Variables that represent categories with no intrinsic ranking or order, such as gender, nationality, or brand names.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in a calculation that are free to vary without violating any constraints.