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SO00 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Which type of feedback about their grammar usage are children likely to get from their parents?

A. Direct feedback: when children say things incorrectly (e.g. I holded the doll) parents tell the child they said it wrong (or, they said it silly) and tell them the correct way to say the sentence.
B. Indirect feedback: when children say things incorrectly (e.g. I holded the doll) parents are more likely to ask for clarification and when children say things correctly, (e.g. I held the doll) parents are more likely to repeat the sentence back to the child.
C. Children do not receive any explicit feedback about their language use.
D. Both A and B describe common types of feedback children receive about their language use.

Question 2

Which of the following are true about Infant Directed Speech (IDS)?

A. IDS contains more prototypical vowels than Adult Directed Speech.
B. IDS carries consistent emotional messages across different languages.
C. Infants prefer to listen to IDS over Adult Directed Speech.
D. all of the above are true statements about IDS.