Evidence that language is a social process that must be learned comes from the fact that when deaf children find themselves in an environment where there are no people who speak or use sign language, they
A. lose the ability to communicate in any way.
B. invent a sign language themselves.
C. start speaking out loud even though they cannot hear themselves.
D. demonstrate compensatory regeneration of lost auditory neural pathways.
Answer: B
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