Sixteen-year-old Madeleine's father is listening to her talk on the phone to her best friend; he laughs at how little he understands of their conversation
Madeleine says, "I can't believe it, he's such a poser!" Her father wonders, "What's a poser?" Madeleine's father is having difficulty because of
A) adolescent phonemic awareness.
B) metalinguistic awareness.
C) the adolescent register.
D) the personal fable.
C) 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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a. formal operational; concrete operational; preoperational; and sensorimotor. b. sensorimotor; preoperational; concrete operational; and formal operational. c. sensorimotor; formal operational; preoperational; and concrete operational. d. sensorimotor; formal operational; concrete operational; and preoperational.
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