According to Chomsky's nativist perspective, a child's ability to say sentences that he or she has never heard before is one form of evidence for
A) an innate mechanism changing syntactic errors to pragmatic errors.
B) a language acquisition device.
C) creative shaping behavior on the part of parents.
D) fast mapping.
B
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