Which of the following is an example of a poverty of the stimulus argument? Newborns show special interest in the low-frequency sounds of their native language which could be heard in the womb prior to birth. 8-month-old infants use the statistical regularities in sequences of syllables to make educated guesses about word boundaries Toddlers recognize that an anaphor, like "one", can refer to noun phrases despite hearing vanishingly few examples of this usage in their input. Infants with brief exposure to Mandarin Chinese prior to 10 months of age show sensitivity to Mandarin phonemic contrasts
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