The words groovy, awesome, phat, nerd, and poser are all used in your text as examples of
A) the adolescent register.
B) metalinguistic awareness.
C) adolescent phonemic awareness.
D) syntactic bootstrapping.
A) the adolescent register. During adolescence children begin to use language as a tool for identifying peer groups and for excluding those outside their peer group. The adolescent register is a special form of speech that adolescents use to identify themselves as belonging to a particular social, cultural, or generational group.
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