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Individual differences in children's grammatical development show that:
 
  A. children who adopt a holistic style in which they focus on the overall tune of a sentence tend to acquire their grammar much later than children who adopt an analytic style in which they focus on the smallest pieces of the sentence.
  B. children who adopt an analytic style are extremely frequent, while children who adopt a holistic style are quite common.
  C. children are equally successful at learning a grammar regardless of whether they adopt a holistic or analytic style.
  D. there are no individual differences in children's grammatical development.

Question 2

Children omit function words in telegraphic speech because:
 
  A. children have limited processing abilities and omit the words that are less necessary for conveying meaning.
  B. function words are less prominent acoustically and children omit these smaller phonetic elements.
  C. children do not understand their meaning and omit words they see as irrelevant.
  D. all of the above reasons have been proposed to explain children's omissions.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D



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