The theory of universal grammar predicts that
A) a new language discovered in a remote region of South America would have structural patterns that children are innately predisposed to learn.
B) learning French will be easier for a child born to French-speaking parents than for a child born to Japanese-speaking parents who was adopted by French-speaking parents as an infant.
C) a child will be unable to learn a language with recursion.
D) all languages will be equally easy to learn at any time in one's life.

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The theory of universal grammar proposes that there are innate structural patterns in the human brain that enable us to learn language. This means that if a new language were to be discovered, it would be expected to have similarities in structure to other human languages, and children would be predisposed to learn its grammar.

The Theory of Universal Grammar Predicts That