Which of the Following Provides the Strongest Support for Both

question 196

Multiple Choice

Which of the following provides the strongest support for both the nature and nurture sides of language acquisition?

• A)All babies have the innate capacity for language in the brain but are dependent on the environment to be able to express and produce any speech sounds or words.
• B)Without attention and reinforcement from their parents,babies would fail to develop language past the point of non-specific babbling sounds.
• C)All babies initially share the same basic phoneme categories,regardless of their parents' native language,but only use phonemes specific to the language they have heard by about 10 months of age.
• D)Babies cannot process speech sounds and noise until approximately five months of age as their temporal lobes and auditory cortices are still forming and developing neural connections.

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