Four-year-old Nicco uses infant-directed speech when talking to his neighbor's new baby; this demonstrates ____________________
a. overregularization
b. fast mapping
c. pragmatics
d. existence of the language acquisition device
Answer: C
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_____ believes that infants have to learn to separate their sensory impressions
A) Bower B) Gibson C) Piaget D) Spelke
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