Question

1. how does the child's pronunciation differ from adult pronunciation in terms of the initial sound in each word?

a. voiced nasal stops become voiceless

b. voiceless stops become voiced

c. nasal consonants become stops

d. Alveolar stops become bilabial stops

2. Consider this. A man was born and raised in France. at the age of 15, he comes to the US and settles in Kansas city, Missouri, where he acquire english as a second language and becomes extremely fluent. Over the next decades he speaks English practically every day. He occasionally speaks French on the phone to family and friends in France and visits there once a year. At the age of 73, he suffers brain damage that renders him aphasic. What does Pitre's Rule predict?

a. The man should display more deficiencies in his English grammar than in his French grammar.

b. He should recover French first because that is the language he has known the longest.

c. The man should display more deficiencies in his French grammar than in his English grammar.

d. The man should recover English first because that is the language he has been using the most actively and recently.

e. He should recover both languages more-or-less simultaneously because he is fluent in both.

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Answer 1

Answer 1:

The right choice is: (c) Nasal consonants becomes stops

Explanation: Initially childrens express consonant sounds but they find it difficult to express it in final position and they make up this by using nasal consonants after the stop.

Answer 2:

The right choice is: (d)

Explanation: According to Pitre's rule when a person knowing many languages recovers from aphasia then he or she firsr recovers the language which they were using before the aphasia happened to them. Since in this case the man was using English before he became aphasic, he will recover English first.