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asmith134

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The constraint-based approach to grammar:
 
  a) contends that language ability is innate.
   b) proposes that environmental input may offer enough data to pick up on syntactic structures.
   c) is inconsistent with research demonstrating infants' abilities to pick up on word boundaries.
   d) is a serial/information-processing approach to explaining language acquisition.

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Kempe, Shaeffler, and Thoresen (2010) investigated the relationship between emotional and linguistic prosodic inherent in child-directed speech (CDS) by having mothers and nonmothers interact with children. They found:
 
  a) that children were aided more in disambiguating a spoken instruction if it did not come from their mother.
   b) that children were aided more in disambiguating a spoken instruction if it came from their mother.
   c) that linguistic prosodic cues disrupted emotional prosodic cues.
   d) that extremely exaggerated pauses were helpful to syntactic disambiguation.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

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Answer: a




asmith134

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Excellent


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Gracias!

 

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