The Constraint-Based Approach to Grammar

question 41

Multiple Choice

The constraint-based approach to grammar

• A)contends that language ability is innate.
• B)proposes that environmental input may offer enough data to pick up on syntactic structures.
• C)is inconsistent with research demonstrating infants' abilities to pick up on word boundaries.
• D)is a serial/information-processing approach to explaining language acquisition.

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