Question

In the chapter, the author’s daughter Lauren (22 months) held a conversation with her mother about a doll and a rocking horse. In order to do this, Lauren had to understand the sounds of adult speech and produce them accurately enough for adults to understand them. This ability falls into the category of ________.

a. pragmatics
b. syntax
c. phonology
d. semantics

Answer 1

Phonology

Explanation:

Phonology is the unit of language in sound. It is the study of sounds, production, and the audition and the perception of the sound. This operates at the sound level. To know the sound of a word is basically very little to know about the sound. One word can be changed in other words by changing its sounds.

Thus here Lauren held a conversation with her mother. To understand the sound of adult Lauren have to understand the sounds, speech, and production. And this category comes under phonology.