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Bernana

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Pia says, Here kitty, when she wants her kitty to come to be fed. Then, seeing a cat walk across a sidewalk, her mother says, What's that? Pia, not being sure, says nothing. Of the following, which best describes Pia's language pattern?
 
  a. Overgeneralized speech
  b. Undergeneralized speech
  c. Semantic speech
  d. Syntactical speech

Question 2

Noah, a two-year-old, sees a cow in a field and says doggie. Noah is illustrating:
 
  a. a holophrase used in early language.
  b. overgeneralization of the word doggie.
  c. a semantic description of the word doggie.
  d. egocentric language development.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b



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