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danielfitts88

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Three-year-old Leona hears a new word several times on a television program. Leona is likely to
 
  a. fail to understand the new word at this age, but is likely to when she is a few years older.
  b. fail to understand the new word unless it is repeated many times.
  c. understand the new word only if her mother repeats it many times.
  d. understand the new word even though she heard it only on television.

Question 2

Children will often form the correct past tense of a verb shortly before or after using the incorrect past tense of a verb. One explanation for why children overregularize at some times and not others is that
 
  a. children want the attention they receive when being corrected for using the wrong form of a verb.
  b. children may forget the exception to a general rule for forming tense.
  c. children are unaware that one form is correct and one is not.
  d. children who overregularize lack a neurological function necessary for the discrimination of correct and incorrect verb tenses.



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B



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