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shenderson6 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Children acquiring Mandarin learn verb earlier than children acquiring English because:

A. most verbs in Mandarin are only a single syllable long, making it easy for children to remember the verbs.
B. Mandarin uses a character based writing system that makes it easier for verbs to be identified.
C. the structure of Mandarin grammar means that children are more likely to hear verbs in a prominent position, namely the end of the sentence.
D. it is not true that children acquiring Mandarin acquire verbs earlier than children acquiring English.

Question 2

Which of the following differences among languages has been show to influence children's linguistic development?

A. the phonological inventory of a language's sound system
B. the frequency of occurrence of a language's grammatical markers
C. the structure of the lexicon and the grammar of the language
D. all of the above have been shown to influence children's language development