Author Question: Young children's ability to comprehend language: A. are generally ahead of their ability to ... (Read 179 times)

jjjetplane · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Young children's ability to comprehend language:

A. are generally ahead of their ability to produce the same language.
B. develop at exactly the same rate as their ability to produce language since both depend on the same underlying representations.
C. are extremely difficult to test and have been very little studied.
D. show that children comprehend very little of the language they hear or produce.

Question 2

The development of children's use of questions shows that:

A. children seem uninterested in asking questions until they can use wh-words appropriately.
B. children do not use the appropriate prosody for questions (that is, question intonation, which rises at the end of the sentence) until they regularly use wh-words.
C. children understand both interpretations of a complex wh-question (When did the boy say he hurt himself?) while still in preschool.
D. children do not master yes-no questions until the school age years.