Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Between the ages of 1 and 5, children learn, on average, 15–20 words every day.
2. The average 1-year-old has a vocabulary of 10 words.
3. At every stage of language development, humans speak better than they understand what is spoken to them.
4. Human infants can distinguish among all of the contrasting sounds that occur in all human languages.
5. Japanese infants cannot distinguish between the “l” and “r” phonemes.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

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