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chandani

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What does the ambiguity of language refer to and how is it resolved?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Because bilinguals process two languages they have ____________ compared to monolinguals.
 
  a. more efficient executive processes c. fewer TOT experiences
   b. larger vocabularies d. enhanced syntactic development


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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Ambiguity is a property of language in which more than one interpretation of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence is possible. This problem is resolved by using a combination of bottom-up and top-down processing.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a


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Reply #2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thank you!


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