Inborn schema that allow humans to learn and use language.

OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

A	phonemes
B	morphemes
C	Language acquisition device
D	Pragmatics

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Noam Chomsky developed the language acquisition theory in order to explain this phenomenon. According to Chomsky, the ability to learn languages is an innate skill. Children are born with a language learning tool that he called a language acquisition device.

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: -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-4: -According to Chomsky, humans are born with the LAD, but other species are not. Nonhuman primates and other species do not spontaneously learn human languages.

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