Ever since Mark and Suzie moved their family to Amsterdam, they insist on an English-only policy at home, even though they and their children all speak Dutch at school and work. This kind of arrangement is known as the one-language-at-home-one-language-__________ approach.

What "feat of monumental proportions" do children accomplish between birth and beginning formal schooling?

a) walking b) language c) toilet training d) sleeping through the night

The fact that American children must master idiosyncratic number words and this makes it more difficult for them to develop arithmetic skills illustrates how

a. American culture is substandard for teaching science and math. b. linguistics affects acquisition of arithmetic skill. c. arithmetic skill affects linguistics. d. poorly adapted the Chinese numbering system is.