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← Language & CommunicationWhy does a community's abrupt shift from oral storytelling to reliance on digital archives often fail to maintain intergenerational language transmission?
A)Technology enhances long-term language vitality
B)Reduces active cognitive engagement in transmission✓
C)Archives perfectly mimic organic language use
D)Digital formats require less storage space
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Active language transmission relies on repeated, dynamic engagement, which the shift reduces, because passive archive consumption diminishes cognitive effort involved in active recall and use; therefore, intergenerational transmission suffers, rather than benefiting as in option A, because archival storage does not equate to language use.
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