CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CHOMSKY LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Chomsky’s LAD stands for
A
Language acquisition device
B
language accomplished device
C
learning accurately device
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Every child has a “Language Acquisition Device”, or LAD for short. The LAD is a tool that is found in the brain; it enables the child to rapidly develop the rules of language. The role of the LAD is to encode the major skills involved in language learning, but with a focus on the encoding of grammar.

Detailed explanation-3: -Chomsky developed the LAD in the 1950s, and since then, has moved on to a greater theory called universal grammar (or UG) to account for the rapid language development in humans.

Detailed explanation-4: -Noam Chomsky was a pioneer of the Language Acquisition Device theory, in which he states that humans have an innate ability to learn language.

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