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Researchers have found a strong correlation between children's Theory of Mind abilities and which aspect of their language knowledge?
 
  A. children's understanding of mental state words, such as think and know
  B. children's understanding of syntactic structures that let them embed one sentence inside another (e.g. Mary says that she saw a ghost)
  C. children's skill with social conversations
  D. correlations between all of these aspects of language knowledge have been found to exist with Theory of Mind ability

Question 2

When telling the Frog Story, children learning different language tend to package the information in their stories differently. For example, children learning Spanish tend to put information about the path of motion into the main verb (e.g. entrar, enter') while children learning Englsh tend to put information about the manner of motion into the main verb (e.g. running). Which approach to the relationship between language and thought best explains this phenomenon?
 
  A. the language and cognition as tandem developments position
  B. the language as an influence on thinking for speaking position.
  C. the language as providing the categories of thought position.
  D. the language as an expression of independent cognition position



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Chocorrol77

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B




penza

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
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:D TYSM

 

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