alleryBowerman found infants develop which skills largely without language?
AEarly reading skills
BEarly story telling
CEarly number words
DEarly spatial reasoning
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Early spatial reasoning
1. Bowerman looked at basic cognitive functions in infants.
2. She showed early spatial reasoning and object categorisation develop largely independently of language.
3. Reading, storytelling and number words depend on language, so they do not fit.
_Source: Wikipedia, Linguistic relativity, Rethinking Linguistic Relativity_
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