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sabina

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The Mean Length of Utterance (MLU):
 
  A. is a simple way to describe children's grammars.
  B. is a good predictor of children's grammatical abilities.
  C. is not a very good predictor of children's grammatical abilities.
  D. directly correlates with age: all typically developing children are at the same MLU at the same age.

Question 2

Across languages:
 
  A. children generally learn morphemes which are highly frequent and perceptually salient first.
  B. children always learn the morphology on verbs before the morphology on nouns.
  C. children always learn the morphology on nouns before the morphology on verbs.
  D. there are no differences in morphology across languages, so there are no differences in when or how children learn them.



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Answer to Question 1

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