Which Finding Would Be Most Difficult to Explain from the Nativist

question 48

Multiple Choice

Which finding would be most difficult to explain from the nativist perspective of language acquisition?

• A)The human brain contains areas that appear to be specifically designed to process language.
• B)Children progress through the same sequence in acquiring language skills and at roughly the same ages.
• C)Children exhibit remarkable cultural differences in early language learning.
• D)Overregularization and other characteristics of early language appear to be universal phenomena.

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