Which of the following is NOT evidence that children can use and understand situationally appropriate language?
A. the fact that children in higher socioeconomic status households tend to have larger vocabularies than children in lower socioeconomic househoulds
B. the fact that boys and girls speak differently in ways that reflect the different ways that men and women speak differently
C. when acting out roles for puppets, children speak differently for different characters, such as having a doctor puppet use more imperative forms than a patient puppet
D. the fact that children will use more polite requests (such as using indirect questions and saying the word please) when asked to speak "very nicely"
A
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