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plus1 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

How can we make sense of a child who responds by saying Seventeen when she is asked What time is it?

A. the child does not understand why the question was being asked at all.
B. the child is likely to have a language disorder.
C. the child does not understand how to use situationally appropriate language.
D. the child's understanding of how conversations about time work is more advanced than her actual ability to tell time.

Question 2

Infants have been recorded in their cribs talking to themselves. These infants are engaged in:

A. syntactic bootstrapping.
B. private speech.
C. Grice's conversational maxim of manner.
D. scaffolding.