The Fact That Young Children Generate All Sorts of Sentences

question 186

Multiple Choice

The fact that young children generate all sorts of sentences they have never heard before suggests that

• A) language skills are not developed simply through the processes of imitation and reinforcement.
• B) language acquisition does not proceed in an orderly sequence.
• C) language acquisition develops normally even in the absence of social interaction.
• D) parents overemphasize correct grammatical usuage.