Which of the following statements is a limitation of Chomsky's nativist perspective?
A) Chomsky's theory cannot explain how children weave statements together into connected discourse and sustain meaningful conversations.
B) Chomsky's theory is inconsistent with research on efforts to teach language to nonhuman primates.
C) Chomsky's theory overemphasizes the role of social experience in language development.
D) Chomsky's theory ignores the existence of specialized regions in the brain that support language skills.
A
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A. ordinal scale B. nominal scale C. interval scale D. ratio scale
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In an artificial grammar task, participants are shown strings of letters labelled "grammatically correct" and "grammatically incorrect." Then they are shown new strings and are asked to classify them as correct or incorrect. Participants usually are:
A) unable to do the task, unless explicitly told the grammatical rules. B) unable to do the task, even after being told the grammatical rules. C) quite good at the task and can articulate the grammatical rules. D) quite good at the task but cannot articulate the grammatical rules.