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RYAN BANYAN

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Evidence for the position that language and thought are independent of each other comes from:
 
  A. research with infants. Even before they have any language, infant are capable of a variety of kinds of abstract thought.
  B. research on children's storytelling. Extensive investigations into how children tell the Frog Story have shown that language and thought are independent.
  C. research on phonological development. Children's developing use of phonology does not require any thought at all.
  D. there is no evidence that supports the idea that language and thought are independent.

Question 2

A comparison of the expressions of different languages has found that:
 
  A. all languages are direct translations of each other and use the same terms to describe the same things.
  B. every language is completely unique in its descriptions and there are many terms that simply cannot be translated from language to language
  C. different languages use different terms to describe the same thing, but one can usually see why a language chooses the terms that it does.
  D. the English language is the only one that accurately describes the world.



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C



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