Linguist Dr. Bhatt proposes that bilingual children acquire grammatical structures unique to each of their languages without confusion, in contrast to a long-standing belief that bilingual children mix grammars and develop more slowly.
Which finding, if true, would most strongly support Dr. Bhatt's proposal?
- Acheck_circle
When tested separately in each language, bilingual children produced age-appropriate grammatical structures and rarely transferred rules from one language to the other.
- B
Bilingual children sometimes use vocabulary words from one language while speaking another.
- C
Some bilingual children begin speaking later than monolingual peers.
- D
Bilingual adults often switch languages mid-sentence in casual conversation.
Explanation
A directly shows separate grammatical competence with little crossover, supporting Bhatt's proposal. C and D could be cited by skeptics; B is about lexicon, not grammar.