How Human Language Develops as the Result of Genes and the Opportunity

question 26

Multiple Choice

How human language develops as the result of genes and the opportunity to hear language during a sensitive period in early life is an example of a(n) ____ explanation.

• A) physiological
• B) ontogenetic
• C) evolutionary
• D) functional

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