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crobinson2013

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One criticism leveled at the competition model of language development is that
 
  a. it does not take into account the social and psychological context of language
  b. it relies solely on stimulus and response
  c. it predicts things about language learning that are not borne out by real world data
  d. it cannot predict things about language learning such as the acquisition of grammatical morphemes

Question 2

The interactionist approach assumes that language is the result of children interacting with mature speakers such as their mothers. One generally acknowledged problem with this approach is
 
  a. that adult speech is too complex for children to process.
  b. mothers don't provide negative evidence for their children and thus cannot be teaching them
  c. fathers speak differently to children than mothers
  d. there is presently no positive proof that what mothers say has any effect on their children's emerging language



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rekilledagain

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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d




crobinson2013

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


mohan

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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