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The preschool years see a large increase in vocabulary. In addition, preschoolers have developed to be able to hold a conversation using multiple words, different speech registers, as well as increased number of communication intents. Preschoolers are also better able to repair communication breakdowns and organize narrative discourse.

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Question 23.
Deictic terms are terms


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Question 24.
Over half of a preschool aged child's communication attempts are to do what?


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At a certain age, when a child is introduced to a word and its referent, s/he only needs one or two exposures before s/he knows the word. This phenomenon is called


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Question 26.
Kinship terms are difficult for a child to learn because


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Question 27.
Narratives are

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Question 28.
A child does not realize until he is around five years of age that an indirect request for something he wants is actually the more polite way to obtain it.

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Question 29.
Anaphoric reference is when speakers talk about the make believe, or fantasy.

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Question 30.
Early narratives will many times reflect the culture of the person who is telling it.


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