The story of Genie:
a. shows the effects of teaching ASL to young children.
b. provides evidence for the existence of a LAD.
c. proves that language acquisition is genetically determined and not dependent upon environment.
d. supports the hypothesis that there are sensitive periods for learning language.
D
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