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Pea0909berry · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

On which of the following tasks is a bilingual child likely to have some difficulty, compared with a monolingual child?

a. understanding the structure of his or her native language
b. awareness that names are arbitrarily assigned to concepts
c. sensitivity to the pragmatics of language conversation
d. processing language quickly.

Question 2

Hsi-Yen came to the United States from China when she was 14. Compared to her brother, who was 5 when he arrived, Hsi-Yen is most likely to have difficulty with

a. phonology.
b. constructing a simple sentence.
c. mastery of pragmatics.
d. vocabulary.