Which Scenario Provides the Strongest Support for Both the Nature

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which scenario provides the strongest support for both the nature and nurture aspects of language acquisition?

• A)All babies have the innate capacity for language in the brain but are dependent on the environment to be able to express and produce any speech sounds or words.
• B)Without attention and reinforcement from their parents,babies would fail to develop language past the point of non-specific babbling sounds.
• C)All babies initially share the same basic phoneme categories but only use phonemes specific to the language they have heard by about 10 months of age.
• D)Babies cannot process speech sounds and noise until approximately 5 months of age as their temporal lobes and auditory cortices are still forming and developing neural connections.

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