|Question 14Verbal

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Over 600 languages are spoken in New York City in addition to English-one can find Bengali spoken in the neighborhood of Parkchester, or Fujianese in Sunset Park. Most speakers of Chinese languages reside in the neighborhood of Flushing (part of New York City's borough of Queens) and in Chinatown, in the borough of Manhattan. New immigrants from north China, where Mandarin is the primary first language, tend to settle in Queens, while new immigrants from south China, where many people speak Cantonese or Fuzhounese as a first language, tend to settle in Manhattan. It can therefore be inferred that       
Which choice most logically completes the text?
correlations in a country between languages and regions where they are spoken can replicate themselves in a new country to which the original country's citizens emigrate.
A
there is a positive correlation between the physical size of a country and the number of languages spoken in that country.
B
languages tend to change more rapidly in areas where many languages are spoken than in areas where few languages are spoken.
C
languages spoken by immigrant peoples can differ significantly in vocabulary and pronunciation from those same languages in their country of origin.
D