According to the passage, which of the following does not stem from popular wisdom on language?
Explanation:
The passage states, “For these reasons some cognitive scientists have described language as a psychological faculty, a mental organ, a neural system, and a computational module. But I prefer the admittedly quaint term "instinct"”. Combine this extract with “Thinking of language as an instinct inverts the popular wisdom” and we arrive at option 5 as the correct answer option. Option 1: While the passage mentions ‘cultural artifact’, it does not relate it to popular wisdom. Hence, option (a) is incorrect. Option 2 is mentioned in the passage but there is no data to suggest that it is not popular wisdom. Option 3 is incorrect because the author has criticized the common view that children learn language as they grow, he instead says that children are born with it. Option 4 is mentioned in the passage and does not invert popular wisdom in any way. Hence, the correct answer is option 5.
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