Professor Chung has designed a computer model to determine how children might be able to acquire linguistic features without an inborn language acquisition device. She is likely to view infants as:
A) grammarians.
B) lexicologists.
C) psycholinguists.
D) statisticians.

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Professor Chung likely views infants as statisticians because her model suggests that children can acquire linguistic features through statistical learning, analyzing patterns and frequencies in language input, rather than relying on an innate language acquisition device.

Professor Chung Has Designed a Computer Model to Determine How