Cross-cultural studies on passives show that children whose language has many passive constructions
a. get bored with passives, so actives are preferred.
b. use many passives in their own uttered sentences.
c. have family pets that show human-like fluencies.
d. become "cognitively choked" on sentences' meanings.
B
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