Four-year-old Nicco uses infant-directed speech when talking to his neighbor's new baby; this demonstrates ______________
a. over regularization
b. fast mapping
c. pragmatics
d. existence of the language acquisition device
Answer: C
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a. substantive conflict. b. procedural conflict. c. prisoner’s dilemma. d. commons dilemma. e. negative inequity problem.
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a. inductive b. deductive c. convergent d. divergent
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