Which of the following implies that infants view their social partners as people whose actions are based on what they know and what they want, and who act deliberately to achieve their goals?
a. fast mapping c. taxonomic assumptions
b. shared attention d. mutual exclusivity assumption
Question 2Which of the following do social-interactionist theorists not associated with language development?
a. social development
b. social-cognitive skills
c. the increasing tendency to see other people as intentional agents
d. its independence from other domains
Question 3The younger people are when they move to the United States from a non-English-speaking country,
a. the greater their preference for reading books in English.
b. the less they speak their native language.
c. the greater their mastery of the English language.
d. the less their mastery of the English language.
Question 4Children of pidgin speakers
a. transform the language of their parents into a true language, often in a single generation.
b. acquire that language from their parents.
c. build upon the language of their parents by adding slang, just as children of all languages do.
d. acquire the dominant language the pidgin was first based upon
Question 5Which of the following is not true of a pidgin?
a. It includes words from different languages.
b. It includes consistent word order.
c. It is not grammatically correct.
d. It is characteristic of tourists in countries whose language they do not speak
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