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JGIBBSON

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on: Jun 20, 2018
Three- and four-year old children's misinterpretation of passive sentences such as The car was pushed by the truck probably reflects
 
  a. their failure to understand the lexical items in the sentence
  b. behavioral biases
  c. the fact that such sentences are irreversible passives
  d. their use of an English word-order strategy

Question 2

Give examples of prototypical members of the category bird, and explain why some members of a category are more prototypical than others.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.


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Juro

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

TRUE


JGIBBSON

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

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Excellent

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