According to research presented in the text, if you compared the language acquisition patterns of children raised in poverty to those of children raised by middle-income parents, you would expect that the children raised in poverty would:
A) have smaller vocabularies
B) babble about 3 months later
C) utter their first words about 3 months later
D) be much more likely to use telegraphic speech, and for a longer period of time

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Research cited in the text found that compared to children from middle-income professional families, children from families on welfare were found to develop basic language skills and structures in much the same way and at the same time. However, children from middle-income homes had much larger vocabularies as the result of their parents spending almost twice as much time talking to them.

According to Research Presented in the Text, If You Compared