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- Thu Aug 14, 2025 5:49 pm
#114006
Hey Dancing,
Dropping that part of the stimulus would essentially alter a premise of the argument entirely - I don't think it is a helpful exercise for you to consider how changing the stimulus would effect the answer choices, because that's presenting a totally different question.
For what it's worth, answer choice (C) would still not be an assumption required by the argument - it doesn't matter when precisely the babbling stage is complete, but without the premise "Most children are several years old before they can voluntarily produce most of the vowel and consonant sounds of their language." I'm not sure the author could even properly draw his conclusion.
Dropping that part of the stimulus would essentially alter a premise of the argument entirely - I don't think it is a helpful exercise for you to consider how changing the stimulus would effect the answer choices, because that's presenting a totally different question.
For what it's worth, answer choice (C) would still not be an assumption required by the argument - it doesn't matter when precisely the babbling stage is complete, but without the premise "Most children are several years old before they can voluntarily produce most of the vowel and consonant sounds of their language." I'm not sure the author could even properly draw his conclusion.