Genie is unable to learn language in her teens after being isolated without language until that time. Genie's difficulty is evidence for a ____.
a. critical period in language acquisition
b. language acquisition device
c. social convention
d. speech spectrograph
Question 2
Theresa began studying Japanese when she was in the eighth grade. After many years of study, however, she still speaks Japanese with an accent and lacks perfect fluency. This is probably because ____.
a. she had already passed the critical period of language development when she began studying Japanese
b. she is not genetically prewired for Japanese
c. she learned and spoke a number of different dialects
d. she continued to speak English while she was studying Japanese, which blocked acquisition
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