One example of socialization through language is described in the study of Portuguese-,
English-, and Mandarin-speaking children and their use of quantifiers such as "all" and
"each." The researchers found that
a. the Mandarin speakers never learned to distinguish between the two quantifiers.
b. all three groups of children were able to distinguish between the two quantifiers at
around 6 years of age.
c. the Portuguese and Mandarin speakers learned to distinguish between the two
quantifiers earlier than the English speakers.
d. the English speakers learned to distinguish between the two quantifiers earlier
than the Portuguese and Mandarin speakers.
c
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