What is the rate of vocabulary development like for the child under age 2?

a. It is slow and steady with new words being added every day.
b. It occurs in spurts with rapid increase over a period of a few months.
c. It is erratic and sometimes regresses.
d. It follows a systematic pattern mirrored by all areas of development.


b. It occurs in spurts with rapid increase over a period of a few months.

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a. procedural memory b. semantic memory c. episodic memory d. fact memory

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