It Has Been Argued That Children Have a Built-In Mechanism

question 80

Multiple Choice

It has been argued that children have a built-in mechanism for learning language that is called the

• A) linguine machinery.
• B) language acquisition device.
• C) morpheme machine.
• D) language hierarchy.

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