Infant-directed speech and reciprocal adult–child conversation ________
A) encourage mastery of social formulas but discourage object-naming
B) are less effective in increasing vocabulary than are word-learning programs on touch-screen tablets
C) have little impact on language development because language emerges spontaneously
D) create a zone of proximal development in which young children’s language expands
Answer: D
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