English speakers must include the pronoun she in a sentence like While Maria is taking a walk, she is listening to her iPod. In the corresponding Spanish sentence, Spanish speakers would leave out the pronoun, resulting in a null subject. What do we observe in Spanish-English bilingual children, given that they are exposed to both types of patterns?
a. There is no effect of bilingualism: their Spanish sentences look just like those of monolingual Spanish speaking children, and their English sentences look just like those of monolingual English speaking children.
b. When producing the English sentence, they are more likely to leave out the pronoun than monolingual English speaking children
c. When producing the Spanish sentence, they are more likely to produce an overt pronoun than monolingual Spanish speaking children
d. Both (b) and (c).
Question 2
The EEG waveform known as the N400 is a brain response that is elicited when a child or adult sees or hears
a. a word whose meaning is unexpected based on prior context
b. a word whose syntactic category is unexpected based on prior context
c. a sentence containing a relative clause
d. a sentence containing a passive sentence
Invasive species in Canada include (a) zebra mussels, Dreissena polymorpha, (b) sea lamprey, Petromy
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Medellin, Colombia: A Walk Through El Tiro
Heel-to-toe-walk
English Sole
Analogy showing the effects of substitution, deletion, and insertion of one letter in a sentence