Which scenario provides the strongest support for both the nature and nurture aspects of language acquisition?
A)All babies have the innate capacity for language in the brain but are dependent on the environment to be able to express and produce any speech sounds or words.
B)Without attention and reinforcement from their parents,babies would fail to develop language past the point of non-specific babbling sounds.
C)All babies initially share the same basic phoneme categories but only use phonemes specific to the language they have heard by about 10 months of age.
D)Babies cannot process speech sounds and noise until approximately 5 months of age as their temporal lobes and auditory cortices are still forming and developing neural connections.

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This scenario supports both the nature aspect of language acquisition (all babies initially share the same basic phoneme categories) and the nurture aspect (babies only use phonemes specific to the language they have heard by about 10 months of age). It shows that there is a basic innate language capability in babies, but that it must be developed through exposure to a specific language.

Which Scenario Provides the Strongest Support for Both the Nature