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Which of the following is true about language?
What is the unique way that adults talk to infants called?
Which type of development involves learning about the sound system of a language?
What is the main requirement for language?
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Which animal is mentioned as an example of species-universal language learning?
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What is the purpose of infant-directed speech?
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Which type of development involves learning about expressing meaning?
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What is the effect of infant-directed speech on babies?
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Which hemisphere of the brain is involved in language specialization?
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What is the purpose of infant-directed speech?
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Which type of language development involves perceiving and producing the phonemes of a language?
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Which of the following statements about phonological development is true?
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Which type of language development involves understanding the meaning of words and phrases?
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At what age do infants typically start forming basic sentences or phrases?
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What is the term for assigning a word to a more limited category than is appropriate?
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What is the assumption that each object can have only one label or name called?
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Which type of assumption involves the presumption that a new word being introduced is referring to the entire object?
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What is the term for broadly applying a word to a wider category than is appropriate?
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What is the term for the ability of infants to perceive and learn regularities in language?
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Which type of language development involves learning how language is used in social context?
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Which of the following is an example of telegraphic speech?
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Which of the following is a definition of morphemes?
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Which of the following is an example of syntactic development?
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Which of the following is a definition of telegraphic speech?
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Which of the following is an example of over-regularization?
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Which of the following is a definition of syntactic bootstrapping?
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Which of the following is an example of proto-conversations?
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Which of the following is an example of nonverbal social cues in language learning?
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Which of the following is a key issue in language theories?
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Which of the following is a theoretical perspective on language development?
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