--- title: How babies learn to talk — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 31 «How babies learn to talk» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / How babies learn to talk # How babies learn to talk The 15 questions of lesson 31 «How babies learn to talk» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 87 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t1/) — Your mate goes "babies don't learn nothing till they talk, bruv." What's true? — right ✓ · ★ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t2/) — Grandma worries because Kai says "I goed to the park". What would you tell her? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t3/) — What would happen if a child only ever copied words they heard, and never worked out rules? — right ✓ · ★ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t4/) — A Gen Z auntie says "baby talk is cringe and bad for babies, fr." ("Fr" means for real, "cringe" means embarrassing.) What does research say? — right ✓ · ★ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t5/) — Your uncle says "all languages come from one word mama, that proves it." What's the better explanation? — right ✓ · ★ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t6/) — Your cousin from Dublin says "the wee one's mixin' Irish and English, she's all mixed up, the craic." ("Wee" means little, "the craic" here means it's fun.) What's true? — right ✓ · ★ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t7/) — In a cartoon a baby says "Good morning, Father, please pass the toast" on day one. What's wrong? — right ✓ · ★ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t8/) — Leo's dad is sure "ba-ba-ba" means "bottle". What's more likely? — right ✓ · ★ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t9/) — Your dad says "too late for me to learn Ukrainian, I'm 40." What's the encouraging truth? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t10/) — A toddler says "Me want more juice!" and her big sis says she "talks like a robot, she's thick." What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/t11/) — Your baby cousin calls every round thing "ball", even the Moon. What should you do? — right ✓ · ★ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises babbling in infants? — right ✓ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/e2/) — Identify the principal finding of the "wug test" devised by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958. — right ✓ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/e3/) — In respect of a child who says "I runned", select the response consistent with the established facts. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/31-how-babies-learn-to-talk/e4/) — Ascertain the term designating the mixing of two languages within a single utterance by a bilingual child. — wrong ✗ · exam - ← previous: [30. Texting, abbreviations and emoji](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/) - next →: [32. Sign language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/32-sign-language/) - ↑ back to [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/)