Which of the following differences among languages has been show to influence children's linguistic development?
A. the phonological inventory of a language's sound system
B. the frequency of occurrence of a language's grammatical markers
C. the structure of the lexicon and the grammar of the language
D. all of the above have been shown to influence children's language development
D
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