One limitation of Chomsky's nativist perspective is that it ________.
A. is inconsistent with research on efforts to teach nonhuman primates language systems
B. does not fully explain why children refine and generalize many grammatical forms gradually
C. overemphasizes the role of social experience in language development
D. fails to show that humans have evolved specialized regions in the brain that support language skills
Answer: B
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