Which of the Following Is Not a Reasonable Criticism of Research

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a reasonable criticism of research attempting to demonstrate language learning with nonhuman primates?

• A) The animals' vocabularies are much less extensive than normal two- to three-year-old human children.
• B) The animals' sentences are much less complicated than those of human children.
• C) Judgments of what the animals are "saying" may be contaminated by experimenter bias.
• D) The animals don't have a language acquisition device, so they can't really be learning language.

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