Question 2 4 pts Which of the following statements is not true of language acqui

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Question 2 4 pts Which of the following statements is not true of language acquisition? when children make errors such as "good" for "went" and "mouses" for "mice." the phenomenon is called overgeneralization O Language faculty is innate, and the infants come equipped with Universal Grammar. o Behaviorists' account that children learn language by imitating structured input and receiving positive reinforcement or correction has proven not to be true. In Second Language Acquisition, adult learners almost always achieve better pronunciation than their child counterparts

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Q. 2.- The last option- " In second language acuisition, adult learners almost always achieve better pronunciation than their child counterparts." is not true because language acuisition is basically about comprehension of the language and then communicating what has been comprehended. Thus, child counterparts of the adult learners may even be better in comprehensive realization of pronunciations and then truly pronouncing the terms. Hence, NOT TRUE.

Q. 7.- The answer is - structural ambiguity. It is a type of syntactic ambiguity in which there are two or more meanings from one word or phrase in a sentence. Here Grouch Marx communicates that he was in pajamas when the elephant was shot. But the worsds are so arranged that it creates a humour and reader feels, "How the elephant got into his pajamas?"

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