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Children do go beyond the linguistic input they receive, and their spontaneous language can grow into a true language, according to research on groups of deaf children who had little early exposure to official spoken or signed languages, like those who enrolled in a school for the deaf in Nicaragua.b. Young children are unable to comprehend or create language if they are not exposed to formal language.

c. Children hardly ever expand on the linguistic information they are exposed to.
D. Children's spontaneous language is still a long way from being considered a legitimate language, despite the fact that they occasionally go beyond the linguistic information they receive.

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b. Young children are unable to comprehend or create language if they are not exposed to formal language.

Research on groups of deaf children who had little early exposure to official spoken or signed languages, such as those in Nicaragua, has shown that children can spontaneously develop a true language even with limited linguistic input. This indicates that children have the innate ability to go beyond the linguistic information they receive and generate a form of language.

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