Author Question: Nina's mom has been warning her about the danger of playing with her balloon near a burning candle. ... (Read 237 times)

HCHenry · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Nina's mom has been warning her about the danger of playing with her balloon near a burning candle. Suddenly, the balloon hits the flame and explodes. Nina's mom looks at her and says, I hope that you are happy, but because of the tone of her voice, her mom is really saying, See, I told you to watch out This use of tone to change the meaning of a sentence provides a good example of the concept of

a. word segmentation.
b. syntactic bootstrapping.
c. overregulation.
d. prosody.

Question 2

_____ is defined as the ability to make independent decisions and to manage one's life without being overly dependent on others.

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word