Chomsky's View That Mothers Model Language with Errors and Thus

question 40

Multiple Choice

Chomsky's view that mothers model language with errors and thus children have errorful language is:

• A) challenged by child language researchers.
• B) the basis for the phonological bootstrapping hyptothesis.
• C) the basis for the prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis.
• D) None of these answers are true.

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