Which of the following statements is incorrect?
a. Human speech must be learned through a speech community.
b. There is a critical period in which language acquisition must occur in humans.
c. Children raised in isolation are never able to fully overcome this language disability.
d. Children begin experimenting with actual language sounds by the age of 6 months.
e. There is some limited biological basis for learning one language over another.
E
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