Clarify some of the advantages and disadvantages of growing up in a bilingual household
What will be an ideal response?
Clear advantages in metalinguistic abilities (capacity to think about language); greater ability to focus attention on language tasks. However, bilingual children reach some language milestones later; possibility of language memory difficulties in adulthood.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Many studies of the late twentieth and early-twenty-first century reported __________ in midlife.
a. a decrease of masculine traits in women b. an increase of masculine traits in men c. an increase of feminine traits in women d. increased androgyny in men and women
As a response to stress, hormones in the hypothalamus are released into the bloodstream and go to the ______.
a. pituitary gland b. adrenal medulla c. amygdala d. hippocampus
A psycholinguist conducts an experiment with a group of participants from a small village in Asia and another from a small village in South America. She asked the groups to describe the bands of color they saw in a rainbow and found they reported the same number of bands as their language possessed primary color words. These results
a. support the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. b. contradict the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. c. support the word frequency effect. d. contradict the word frequency effect.