Looking at words across languages, researchers have found that:
A. all languages use the same words so that each word in one language corresponds to a single word in each other language.
B. there is very little overlap in word meanings across languages so that every language describes the world in arbitrarily different ways.
C. languages differ somewhat in the contents of their lexicons, and also in their preferred ways of describing elements in the world.
D. regardless of content and frequency differences in the lexicons across languages, children are not sensitive to these differences until they enter school.
C
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