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iveyjurea

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What source(s) of information might lead an infant to guess that a particular word encountered in the speech stream is a noun?
 
  a. The word appears in a distributional context that often features other words that are nouns (a frequent frame' for nouns, such as after the word the and before the word on).
  b. Infants cannot determine the syntactic category of words; children are only able to do this after they enter primary school.
  c. The child knows the meaning of the word, and knows that it refers to an object, and the child knows innately (or has learned) that objects tend to be nouns.
  d. Both (a) and (c).

Question 2

Which of the following claims about cross-linguistic language development is accurate?
 
  a. children master the passive late, regardless of the language being learned
  b. children master nouns before verbs, regardless of the language being learned
  c. children have more difficulty with object gap relative clauses than subject gap relative clauses, regardless of the language being learned.
  d. children have more difficulty with subject gap relative clauses than object gap relative clauses, regardless of the language being learned.



kkenney

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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c



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