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Capo

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Children's past tense overregularizations (e.g. saying goed instead of went) demonstrate that:
 
  A. children do not yet understand how to say the past tense.
  B. children must memorize all the different forms of their language.
  C. children do not pay close attention to the input from their parents.
  D. children have learned the regular rule for the past tense.

Question 2

Children's ability to correctly infer the meaning of nonsense words in different morphological and syntactic contexts demonstrates that:
 
  A. Children's knowledge of morphology and syntax depends on their knowledge of open class words.
  B. children have productive grammatical rules describing those contexts.
  C. children are dependent on social interactions to guide their word learning.
  D. children are unable to infer the meanings of nonsense words from context.



aliotak

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B



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