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Marty

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Children's first 50 words:
 
  A. are highly idiosyncratic and differ dramatically from child to child.
  B. contain no function words among them.
  C. are acquired very rapidly as soon as a child begins to talk
  D. consist of a variety of kinds of words, but at least in English, contain a relatively large number of nouns.

Question 2

One of the first words of a young child was go. For almost a month, the child said this word only when her mother was buckling her in her car seat. This is an example of:
 
  A. a mental lexicon.
  B. a proto word.
  C. context-bound word use.
  D. a hyper word.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

C



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