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JGIBBSON

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Which of the following examples would be most consistent with Marcus's (1996) rule-and-memory theory for children's choice of past-tense verbs?
 
  a. Children systematically add -ed to every present-tense verb, to create a past-tense verb, and they remember this rule.
  b. Children typically add -ed to present-tense verbs, but they have also learned the past tense of a small number of irregular verbs.
  c. Children create a rule, based on adults' models of past tense, and the children store this rule in long-term memory.
  d. Children keep a tally of the statistically likely pattern of past-tense words, and they retrieve this rule from memory when appropriate.

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A mother hands little Marc his familiar bowl, which contains a red fruit he has never seen before. She says, Look, here are some strawberries When he sees this same fruit at dinnertime, he points and says a word something like strawbe
 
  Marc is demonstrating:
   a. overextension.
   b. fast mapping.
   c. an appreciation of syntax.
   d. an appreciation of pragmatics.



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jjorrostieta

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: b

Answer to Question 2

Ans: b




JGIBBSON

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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