<p>But learning is impossible without<br>
innately organized circuitry to do the
105 learning, and these errors give us hints of
how it works. Children are born to attend
to minor differences in the pronunciation
of words, such as walk and walked. They
seek a systematic basis for the difference
110 in the meaning or form of the sentence,
rather than dismissing it as haphazard
variation in speech styles. They
dichotomize time into past and nonpast,
and correlate half the timeline with the
115 evanescent word ending. They must have
a built-in tendency to block the rule when
a competing form (like bled) is found in
memory, because there is no way they
could learn the blocking principle in the
120 absence of usable feedback from their
parents. Their use of the rule (though
perhaps not the moment when they first
use it) is partly guided by their genes.</p>
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<li>Paragraph 7 (lines 103 to 123) describes</li>
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<p>(A) the way children combine rules and memories during language development
(B) the natural tendency children have to confuse linguistic rules
(C) the forms of resistance children show to identifying new linguistic rules
(D) the methods of learning that children use in the absence of parental feedback
(E) the principles underlying a childs very first utterance</p>
<p>I’m going to assume it is, since you specifically asked for evidence of these “memories”. Honestly, I have absolutely no clue what this paragraph is aiming at, but what I do know, is that all the other answer choices are certainly not any better than answer A, if not absurd.</p>
<p>B) Why would they confuse linguistic rules? Where do they do that in the passage? They’re trying to determine linguistic rules, not confuse them.
C) Resistance to new rules? No, actually, they’re open to these new rules. They want to understand new linguistic rules, and make differences in language.
D) Honestly, I have no clue where parental feedback comes into place in the paragraph, or methods of learning children use in relation to that. This is one of those answers I call absurd.
E) Same with D. Absurd. The paragraph has nothing to do with what children first say when they’re able to talk. It’s talking about how they differentiate between different words, and identify linguistic rules.</p>
<p>I might be wrong though with A, I’m not sure, but this is my methodical approach towards any “hard” CR question.</p>
<p>D because of this line: "They must have
a built-in tendency to block the rule when
a competing form (like bled) is found in
memory, because there is no way they
could learn the blocking principle in the
absence of usable feedback from their
parents."</p>
<p>But if it was on the real test, I’d put A also cause it’s more broad.</p>
<p>What’s the actual answer? And where is this from?</p>