Twelve-year-old Cade is able to produce all of the sounds of speech and construct complete, accurate, meaningful sentences but struggles with taking turns in a discussion, recognizing humor and figurative language. He is having communication difficulty in the area of
A) phonology.
B) semantics.
C) morphology.
D) pragmatics.

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Cade's difficulty with taking turns, recognizing humor, and figurative language are all related to pragmatics, which is the use of language in social contexts. Phonology concerns the sounds of speech, semantics concerns the meaning of words and sentences, and morphology concerns the structure of words.

Twelve-Year-Old Cade Is Able to Produce All of the Sounds