Based on her experience with young infants, Maria, a child-care worker, wonders if children are born with a built-in storehouse of rules that are common to all human languages. Maria is pondering the concept of

A) linguistic expansions.
B) infant-directed speech.
C) private speech.
D) universal grammar.

D

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