When school-age children understand the rules of language indicating how words and phrases can be combined to form sentences, they have grasped the concept of __________.
A. metalinguistic skills
B. metacognition
C. syntax
D. metamemory
Answer: C
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A) extinction. B) shaping. C) biological preparedness. D) reinforcement.
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