Author Question: All of the following depend on metalinguistic skills EXCEPT a. producing puns b. naming as many ... (Read 35 times)

audie · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

All of the following depend on metalinguistic skills EXCEPT

a. producing puns
b. naming as many kinds of animals as possible in a given period of time
c. playing rhyming games
d. understanding sarcasm

Question 2

One reason that young children are able to learn the labels for objects in their environment is that

a. they understand that speakers often name the objects that the child is paying attention to
b. they learn that the object being named is often one that the speaker is paying attention to
c. they have an innate understanding of word-referent relationships
d. they pick up word-referent associations as their brains mature