Thirty-year-old Jiang has lived in China all his life and has only spoken in a common Chinese dialect. Jiang has an infant son named Woo. What linguistic advantage would Woo have over Jiang?
a. Woo would have a larger vocabulary.
b. Woo would be better able to distinguish between the "r" and "l" sounds.
c. Woo would be producing more grammatically correct sentences than Jiang.
d. Woo would have no linguistic advantages over his father.
b
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