Language productivity (or generativity) refers to the fact that:
A. human knowledge of language can produce an infinite number of different sentences.
B. children produce language spontaneously.
C. researchers have produced (or generated) a large body of research about language structure.
D. children's skill in producing language is typically behind their skill in comprehending it.
A
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