The best evidence that there is a critical period for language acquisition is the fact that:
a. infants babble phonemes that do not occur in their parents' native language.
b. toddlers maintain a capacity to discriminate phonemes that they have never heard.
c. people most easily master the grammar of a second language during childhood.
d. preschoolers often overgeneralize certain rules of grammatical structure.
Answer: c. people most easily master the grammar of a second language during childhood.
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