Select the piece of information that a linguist evaluating the statements below would NOT find relevant:
A baby's first spoken word is almost totally unpredictable: although some linguists argue that it is likely that the first word will be one of the five words the baby has heard most commonly in his or her lifetime thus far, others claim that the certain combination of sounds that the baby chooses to imitate may simply be the sounds that are most pleasing to the baby's ear.
A
A comparison of children's first words and the five most common words those children heard prior to speaking
B
The age at which a baby forms his or her first whole sentence
C
The first words of a set of 1,000 randomly selected babies
D
A test to see which sounds are most likely to make babies smile
E
Whether babies, on average, imitate certain sounds more frequently than others
A baby's first spoken word is almost totally unpredictable: although some linguists argue that it is likely that the first word will be one of the five words the baby has heard most commonly in his or her lifetime thus far, others claim that the certain combination of sounds that the baby chooses to imitate may simply be the sounds that are most pleasing to the baby's ear.
A
A comparison of children's first words and the five most common words those children heard prior to speaking
B
The age at which a baby forms his or her first whole sentence
C
The first words of a set of 1,000 randomly selected babies
D
A test to see which sounds are most likely to make babies smile
E
Whether babies, on average, imitate certain sounds more frequently than others
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