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At what age have children typically learned vocabulary and grammatical rules for creating a variety of sentence structures?
At what age have children typically learned vocabulary and grammatical rules for creating a variety of sentence structures?
- 2 years
- 4 years (correct)
- 6 years
- 8 years
What is one of the fundamental tasks of psycholinguists?
What is one of the fundamental tasks of psycholinguists?
- To analyze adult second-language learners
- To explore the evolution of speech production
- To explain how children learn language (correct)
- To study the development of speech comprehension
What do infants do prior to uttering speech sounds?
What do infants do prior to uttering speech sounds?
- Make a variety of sounds – crying, cooing, gurgling (correct)
- Listen attentively to adult speech
- Begin imitating adult speech
- Start forming words and sentences
What is the age at which children have typically overcome the most difficult obstacles in language learning?
What is the age at which children have typically overcome the most difficult obstacles in language learning?
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What do 4- or 5-year-old children's language proficiency often become the envy of?
What do 4- or 5-year-old children's language proficiency often become the envy of?
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Language Development
- Children have typically learned vocabulary and grammatical rules for creating a variety of sentence structures by around age 5-6.
Psycholinguistics
- One of the fundamental tasks of psycholinguists is to study how people process and understand language.
Language Acquisition
- Prior to uttering speech sounds, infants undergo a period of babbling, where they experiment with sounds and phonemes.
Language Proficiency
- By around age 4-5, children typically overcome the most difficult obstacles in language learning.
- At this age, their language proficiency often becomes the envy of adults, as they have a natural ability to learn and absorb language rules and vocabulary quickly.
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