Theorists Who Have Disputed Chomsky's View of Language Development by Pointing

question 28

Multiple Choice

Theorists who have disputed Chomsky's view of language development by pointing out that the communicative function of language is key to understanding language development would be MOST interested in

• A) electrical activity in the brain taking place while speaking.
• B) deaf children's development of their own sign language with a regular grammatical structure in the absence of language exposure.
• C) children's ability to use social context to interpret others' speech.
• D) the statistical regularities of speech.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

The square root of the variance showing how much individual data points differ from the mean.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical principle stating that the sampling distribution of the sample mean approaches a normal distribution as the sample size increases, regardless of the population's distribution.

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution of a statistic derived from numerous samples taken from a particular population.

Considered Normal

A term often used in statistics and probability to refer to data or distribution patterns that fit within a normal (Gaussian) distribution, characterized by a symmetric bell-shaped curve.