COGNITION
THINKING AND LANGUAGE
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Question
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Hermann Ebbinghause
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Noam Chomsky
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Benjamin Whorf
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Elizabeth Loftus
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George Miller
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Detailed explanation-1: -Noam Chomsky was a pioneer of the Language Acquisition Device theory, in which he states that humans have an innate ability to learn language.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, is part of Chomsky’s acquisition hypothesis. The LAD is a system of principles that children are born with that helps them learn language, and accounts for the order in which children learn structures, and the mistakes they make as they learn.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chomsky is credited with revolutionizing the linguistics field by introducing the Chomsky hierarchy, generative grammar and the concept of a universal grammar, which underlies all human speech and is based in the innate structure of the mind/brain.