Many Theorists Believe That People Have an Innate Predisposition to Learn

question 37

Multiple Choice

Many theorists believe that people have an innate predisposition to learn language.Three of the following provide sources of evidence that these theorists use to support their belief.Which one is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learning language?

• A)Most languages have certain characteristics in common, such as similar ways of forming negatives.
• B)Children develop increasingly larger and more sophisticated vocabularies as they grow older.
• C)Children sometimes learn a language more easily when they are exposed to it at a young age.
• D)People in the same community learn the same language despite very different experiences with that language.

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Definitions:

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