The continuity assumption argues that:
A. children must continually learn from adults in order to learn language.
B. children and adults both have the same kinds of grammatical representations. Differences between adults and children arise from experience-based knowledge and processing limitations of children.
C. children and adults have the different kinds of grammatical representations from each other, and they continue to do so.
D. children are born knowing their native language and they continue to use it throughout their lifespan.
B
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