During the first year of life, the infant
a) listens to the speech around him, but makes few speech-like sounds of his own
b) makes sounds that reflect the sound patterns of the language he or she hears
c) learns most of the grammar of his or her native language
d) can imitate such words as mommy and bye bye without understanding what they mean
Question 2
During their first year of life, infants have typically done all of the following except:
a) begun to identify statistical patterns in the language they hear around them
b) begun to communicate intentionally
c) begun to point to objects and become involved in joint attention
d) begun to produce multiword utterances
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