AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Noam Chomsky is a credible linguist and expert in language development. He started his research into language in the 1960s. He suggests that children are born with an innate ability to learn language.

Detailed explanation-2: -He has made a number of strong claims about language: in particular, he suggests that language is an innate faculty-that is to say that we are born with a set of rules about language in our minds, which he refers to as the ‘Universal Grammar’. The universal grammar is the basis upon which all human languages build.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chomsky’s theory of language acquisition argues that human brain structures naturally allow for the capacity to learn and use languages. Chomsky believed that rules for language acquisition are innate (inborn) and strengthen naturally as humans grow and develop.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language.