GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CHOMSKY LANGUAGE
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Question
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Linguistic performance
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Linguistic comptence
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Linguistic sign
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Nativism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar says that we’re all born with an innate understanding of the way language works.
Detailed explanation-2: -An understanding of, and ability to employ correctly, the rules which govern language, such as phonetic rules, spelling, syntax, and grammar.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chomsky hypothesized that the language acquisition device was the system that determined the features of the child’s native language. This falls under the realm of the nativist theory of language which states that humans are born with the innate ability for acquiring language (McGilvray, 2005).
Detailed explanation-4: -On Chomsky’s view, the language faculty contains innate knowledge of various linguistic rules, constraints and principles; this innate knowledge constitutes the ‘initial state’ of the language faculty.