Critics of the critical-period hypothesis of language acquisition believe that rare cases, such as Genie, are not good evidence for the biological nature of language learning because
a. Genie was deaf.
b. Genie may have suffered serious cognitive, physiological, and psychological deficits due to the lack of human contact she encountered in her life.
c. Genie was exposed to a number of teratogens prenatally.
d. Genie willingly isolated herself from human contact and may not have performed well on language learning tasks due to her discomfort with human interaction.
B
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