A typical three-year-old speaks more fluently than any chimpanzee because
(a) children, as Skinner showed, can learn language via operant conditioning
(b) children are appropriately reinforced by their language community for
correct speech
(c) no serious attempt has been made to teach chimps to communicate
(d) humans have a biologically programmed capacity for language
D
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