Which Provides the Strongest Evidence for the Biological Basis of Language

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which provides the strongest evidence for the biological basis of language?

• A) the phonetic similarity between most languages
• B) the fact that only human beings can acquire language
• C) the consistent timing and order of language acquisition around the world,in spite of wide variations in the way adults interact with infants
• D) the recent identification of a "linguistic gene sequence" on the eighteenth chromosomal pair

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