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Brittanyd9008

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In order for a child to become bilingual, which of the following must be true about her environment?
 
  A. the child's parents must follow the one-parent-one-language principle so that the child can keep the two languages separate
  B. the two languages the child is learning must be closely related to each other so that the child's phonological processing is not over-taxed
  C. the child must receive formal schooling in both languages
  D. none of the above statements describe environmental requirements for becoming bilingual

Question 2

Over the first year of life, bilingual children :
 
  A. maintain their ability to hear phonemic contrasts in the language that their mother speaks, but it takes additional them to become skilled at hearing the contrasts of another language.
  B. do not tune their phonemic abilities to a particular language but remain open to all phonemic contrasts.
  C. maintain their ability to hear phonemic contrasts in both of their languages while losing their ability hear phonemic contrasts beyond those languages.
  D. tune their phonemic systems in exactly the same way that monolingual children do.


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ebenov

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C


Brittanyd9008

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Wow, this really help

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Excellent

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