Jake is a high school student. After-school conversations with friends include the use of slang words and may include telling of a "dirty joke." When Jake arrives at his grandparents' house he uses standard English and says "ma'am" and "sir" when addressing them. This ability to adjust language represents skill in_____

A) morphology
B) phonology
C) pragmatics
D) semantics


C

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Researchers often gain useful information from observation of children and adolescents. Three of the following suggestions are likely to improve the quality of observational data. Which one is unlikely to do so?

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Which of the following laws designates 13 disability categories and provides funds to states and school districts?

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