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Coya19@aol.com · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Unlike nearly all words in spoken languages, many signs in signed languages can be formed so that they resemble to some extent the objects, actions, or properties to which they refer. This characteristic of manual signs is known as

a. arbitrariness
b. convention
c. mirroring
d. iconicity

Question 2

All of these are assumptions of the social interactionist approach EXCEPT

a. parents insist on teaching their children social routines
b. operant conditioning causes children to correctly use morphological rules
c. social play between mothers and infants forms the basis of later conversational patterns
d. CDS facilitates language learning