Studies of child language acquisition indicate __________.
a. that children are not genetically specialized to learn language
b. that language is not at all instinctual
c. the presence of a mental grammar
d. little evidence for the existence of deep structure
Question 2
To say that language is grammatical is to say that __________.
a. language is spoken
b. words are assembled from small sound elements
c. the words we use have meaning
d. there is no limit to the number of ways words can be strung together
Language
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