When children learn the pragmatics of speech, they are learning the ____
a. ?appropriate order of subject, verb, and object in their language
b. many different words that stand for the same thing in their language?
c. rules of conversation operating in their culture?
d. basic sounds that comprise their language?
ANSWER:
c
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