Children born to mute parents begin babbling at the same age

Question

Children born to mute parents begin babbling at the same age and with roughly the same range of sounds as children born to speaking parents.

The information above provides evidence to support which of the following hypotheses?

A. Babies of mute parents are incapable of learning proper grammatical structures.
B. Babbling is an important cue to parents to provide care and nurturing to the child.
C. Linguistic formation is preceded by asemantic vocalizations.
D. Babbling behavior depends on an inborn pattern of development.
E. When babies begin babbling, speaking parents usually respond with speech or imitations of the babbling.

Kurtosis · Answer

Children born to mute parents begin babbling at the same age and with roughly the same range of sounds as children born to speaking parents.

The information above provides evidence to support which of the following hypotheses?

A. Babies of mute parents are incapable of learning proper grammatical structures. -  Out of scope 
B. Babbling is an important cue to parents to provide care and nurturing to the child. -  Out of scope 
C. Linguistic formation is preceded by asemantic vocalizations. -  Out of context. Given statement does not provide information on language formation. 
D. Babbling behavior depends on an inborn pattern of development. -  Correct 
E. When babies begin babbling, speaking parents usually respond with speech or imitations of the babbling. -  Out of Scope

rhine29388 · Answer

choices A,B,C and E are completely out of scope options. only option D provides correct evidence for given hypothesis

OptimusPrepJanielle · Answer

Premise: Children of both the mute and speaking parents begin babbling at the same age.
This means babbling has nothing to do with the speaking abilities of parents.

Only option D falls in line with this. Rest of the options are completely out of scope.

Correct Option: D

daboo343 · Answer

Given Mute parents babies and Speaking parents babies start to babble at the same time

It means babies does not require to listen their parents voice in order to bable

Now come to answer choice

A. Babies of mute parents are incapable of learning proper grammatical structures.  Out of scope 
B. Babbling is an important cue to parents to provide care and nurturing to the child. Out of scope 
C. Linguistic formation is preceded by asemantic vocalizations. Out of scope  
D. Babbling behavior depends on an inborn pattern of development. It matches with our inference so it might be the answer hold it 
E. When babies begin babbling, speaking parents usually respond with speech or imitations of the babbling.  out of scope

IMO D

Abhishek009 · Answer

Age of babies whose parents are mute = Age of babies whose parents are not mute

Prethink : Babbling doesn't depend on the parents who can speak / who can not

Examine the answer options -

A. Babies of mute parents are  incapable of learning proper grammatical structures.

We are talking about babbling so grammatical structure is out of scope.
 
B. Babbling is an important cue to parents to  provide care and nurturing to the child.

Care of parents is nowhere mentioned in the stimulus , hence out of scope.

C.  Linguistic formation is preceded by a semantic vocalizations.

Out of scope, doesn't flow from the passage.

D. Babbling behavior  depends on an inborn pattern of development.

Babbling doesn't depend on the sound/voice of parent ----so----- it must be an inherent pattern of development of inborn.

E. When babies begin babbling,  speaking parents usually respond with speech or imitations of the babbling

We have no idea whether speaking parent respond by babbling or with speech, hence out of scope.

Hence correct answer must undoubtedly be (D)

Divyadisha · Answer

With given information we can conclude that babbling has nothing to with parents being mute or speaking.
A. Babies of mute parents are incapable of learning proper grammatical structures.  Grammar is not mentioned anywhere in the argument! 
B. Babbling is an important cue to parents to provide care and nurturing to the child.  It is not mentioned that Babbling leads to some beahviour in parents 
C. Linguistic formation is preceded by asemantic vocalizations.  Language formation is not discussed. Its just babbling and not language that we are talking about 
D. Babbling behavior depends on an inborn pattern of development  Got it!! 
E. When babies begin babbling, speaking parents usually respond with speech or imitations of the babbling.  Parents response to babbling is not discussed

TheNightKing · Answer

Basically what we are looking here is what is common between children born to mute parents and children born to speaking parents (with respect to children babbling at the same age).

D. Clearly states that it depends on an inborn pattern of development. Which means that is how babies grow and it has nothing to do with parents being mute or speaking.
A. Too Far.
B. We really cannot conclude about nurture.
C. That might be very well the case but it doesn't help me bridge the gap between two types of parents.
E. How would we know how different parents respond

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