Andrew's mother brings him to a university laboratory to participate in a study of language acquisition but is surprised that the researchers play recordings of nonsense sentences, comprised of invented words such as boga, giku, kuga, and gapi
Andrew is most likely participating in a study designed to
a. minimize interference from parents during the procedure
b. test his ability to learn to recognize different kinds of recurring patterns
c. determine how much language input he has received so far
d. see whether he will imitate these speech sounds
B
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A. There is no difference; the two terms refer to the same thing. B. Linguistic competence is the ability to understand and produce well formed sentences while communicative competence is the ability to engage in appropriate communicative interactions. C. Linguistic competence is the ability to engage in appropriate social interactions while communicative competence is the ability to understand and produce well formed sentences. D. Linguistic competence is the ability to speak while communicative competence is the ability to read.
Dagoni works for longer and longer periods of time and takes fewer and fewer breaks as his project nears completion. This is an example of the __________ effect?
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