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lracut11

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Language productivity (or generativity) refers to the fact that:
 
  A. human knowledge of language can produce an infinite number of different sentences.
  B. children produce language spontaneously.
  C. researchers have produced (or generated) a large body of research about language structure.
  D. children's skill in producing language is typically behind their skill in comprehending it.

Question 2

Looking at words across languages, researchers have found that:
 
  A. all languages use the same words so that each word in one language corresponds to a single word in each other language.
  B. there is very little overlap in word meanings across languages so that every language describes the world in arbitrarily different ways.
  C. languages differ somewhat in the contents of their lexicons, and also in their preferred ways of describing elements in the world.
  D. regardless of content and frequency differences in the lexicons across languages, children are not sensitive to these differences until they enter school.



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C



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