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A developmental psychologist observes that children from vastly different cultural and linguistic backgrounds (e.g., urban Japan, rural Peru, and suburban Canada) all begin to babble, use single words, and then combine words into simple sentences at roughly the same ages. This cross-cultural consistency, despite significant differences in their environments and the specific languages they are exposed to, provides the strongest support for which of the following perspectives on language acquisition?

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