Two-year-old Mark is looking for his toy. His mother finds one of his cars and hands it to Mark. He says, "Not ball," meaning the car is not what he wanted. According to Noam Chomsky, Mark is exhibiting which pattern of speech?
A)identification
B)command
C)negation
D)possession

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Mark is demonstrating negation by indicating that the car is not the toy he wanted, which is a way of expressing what something is not.

Two-Year-Old Mark Is Looking for His Toy