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nevelica

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Saffran, Aslin, and Newport (1996) presented infants with a continuous speech stream made up of four different three-syllable nonsense words, for a total of two minutes.
 
  Then they tested whether infants had picked up on word boundaries by presenting these nonsense words and new sequences. The infants showed a preference for ______, demonstrating that they _______.
   a) neither sequence; had picked up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words
   b) neither sequence; had failed to pick up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words
   c) listening to the new sequences; had picked up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words
   d) listening to the new sequences; had failed to pick up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words

Question 2

Chomsky's approach to how we engage in language is termed:
 
  a) transformational grammar.
   b) constraint-based grammar.
   c) phonetic grammar.
   d) syntactic based grammar.


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Benayers

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

Answer: c

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a


nevelica

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Excellent

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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