Noam Chomsky reasoned that
A) in early childhood, rewards and punishments support language development.
B) young children are unable to assume much responsibility for their own language learning.
C) the rules for sentence organization are too complex to be directly taught to cognitively sophisticated young children.
D) language, like any other behavior, is acquired through imitation and operant conditioning.
C
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