Before age 2 years, while children are still in the one and two-word stages of language development, which statement best describes their communicative abilities?
A. Prior to age 2 years, infants can communicate, but they do so without the benefit of their language.
B. Infants are innately born with full command of all the communicative functions of language.
C. Prior to age 2 years, children are able to engage in several kinds of speech acts and can use what language they have in an appropriately communicative manner.
D. Prior to age 2 years, children are barely able to communicate anything at all.
Question 2
A child is fussing and staring towards a favorite blanket out of her reach. Her mother notices the child's distress and fetches the blanket of the child. This child has effectively engaged in what kind of communicative act?
A. a perlocutionary act
B. an illocutionary act
C. a narrative act
D. conversational discourse
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