Author Question: Which of the following is NOT evidence that children can use and understand situationally ... (Read 29 times)

bobbie · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Which of the following is NOT evidence that children can use and understand situationally appropriate language?

A. the fact that children in higher socioeconomic status households tend to have larger vocabularies than children in lower socioeconomic househoulds
B. the fact that boys and girls speak differently in ways that reflect the different ways that men and women speak differently
C. when acting out roles for puppets, children speak differently for different characters, such as having a doctor puppet use more imperative forms than a patient puppet
D. the fact that children will use more polite requests (such as using indirect questions and saying the word please) when asked to speak very nicely

Question 2

When a child is asked to explain a (relatively) complicated problem to a younger child than herself, she will typically adjust her speech to be simpler. This fact is supportive of which of the following claims?

A. Piaget's claim that children are egocentric
B. the claim that children understand the need to adjust their speech to be appropriate to the specific situation
C. the claim that children require scaffolding to learn how to communicate
D. the claim that children are born with an innate grammar learning mechanism