Author Question: Studies of the sounds of babbling of children of about six months old have shown that a) by this ... (Read 37 times)

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Studies of the sounds of babbling of children of about six months old have shown that

a) by this age, the influence of the child's language environment can be clearly distinguished in the child's intonation, although all children play with similar vowels and consonants
b) the sounds of babbling at this age are remarkably similar across all language environments
c) the sounds of babbling have very little phonological relation to adult speech
d) by this age, the input language has clearly shaped the quantity and quality of the sounds produced: most children will only produce speech sounds heard in the native language

Question 2

The child's phonetic inventory at a particular time is

a) a list of speech sounds and word patterns that occur in her word productions
b) a list of all the speech sounds and word patterns that occur in the adult language she is acquiring
c) an alphabetical list of the child's words
d) a list of speech sounds and word patterns that occur in the adult form of the words she attempts to say