The purpose in using nonsense words to test children's understanding of morphology is

a. to make the task more interesting to young subjects
b. to determine how morphological knowledge and metalinguistic knowledge may be related
c. to teach the child new words
d. to determine whether or not children have internalized morphological rules


d

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