Two-year-old Marian and her mother are at the park. People nearby hear Marian talking to her mother, "See birdie," "Mama give," and "My ball.". According to Noam Chomsky, Marian is exhibiting

a. the identification, agent-action, and possessive patterns of speech.
b. the question, command, and ownership patterns of speech.
c. negation behavior speech patterns.
d. babbling.

A

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