Language 2

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What is true about sign language?
It's extremely informative about language acquisition and linguistic universals
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How does sign language acquisition compare to the acquisition of a spoken language?
Follows the same milestones
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Teaching deaf children sign language does what to their learning of spoken language?
May improve it
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How did the Nicaraguan sign language develop?
Deaf children communicating with each other in school
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Which is an important requirement for language acquisition?
Input
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What do the cases of wild children, Genie and Isabella not tell us about language acquisition?
The ability to recover from linguistic deprivation is dependent on the amount of time you were deprived
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The behaviourist theory of language acquisition is...
Incorrect
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One of these is not one of the aspects Chomsky said humans have, which?
Cognitive language
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How does sign language acquisition compare to the acquisition of a spoken language?

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Follows the same milestones

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Teaching deaf children sign language does what to their learning of spoken language?

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How did the Nicaraguan sign language develop?

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Which is an important requirement for language acquisition?

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