Although Language Development Ultimately Ends with the Ability to Produce

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True/False

Although language development ultimately ends with the ability to produce and understand language, children raised in different cultures proceed through the stages of language development is widely varying sequences. For example, English-speaking children learn to coo before they babble, but children raised in China babble before they coo.

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Definitions:

Amino Acid Sequences

The order of amino acids in a protein, which determines the protein's structure, function, and properties.

Ribosomes

Cellular structures that synthesize proteins by translating mRNA into polypeptide chains.

Polypeptide

A linear organic polymer consisting of a large number of amino acid residues bonded together, forming part of (or the whole of) protein molecules.

mRNA

Messenger RNA, a type of RNA that carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where it specifies the amino acid sequence of the protein products of gene expression.