. Which of the following topics examines the pragmatic aspects of language?
a. the problem of understanding ambiguous sentences
b. whether we talk differently to a child than to an adult
c. whether the verb agrees with the appropriate noun
d. the problem of slips-of-the-tongue
Ans: b
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