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Which of the following is true about gender differences in language use over the school age period?
 
  A. boys are more likely to ask questions while girls are more likely to dominate conversations with direct declaration of opinions
  B. boys are more likely to interrupt during a conversation while girls are more likely to encourage responses from others
  C. boys and girls in the school age period do use different conversational styles, but those styles are largely unrelated to the differences in styles of adult men and women
  D. there are no noticeable differences in how boys and girls speak over the school age period

Question 2

Studies of conversational style in school age and teenage children have found that these children are:
 
  A. largely egocentric and able to talk only about themselves.
  B. highly dependent on scaffolding from peers and parents to produce coherent discourses
  C. able to maintain topics and be responsive to their conversational partner.
  D. still developing their basic syntactic abilities, as can be seen in their developing conversational abilities.



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C



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