CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

CHOMSKY LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is LAD?
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A good friend
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Language Acquisition Device
C
Language and Development
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None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -With the language acquisition device. Children also seem to have the ability to pluralize nouns. However, they often apply grammar rules to all words, including those that have exceptions. For example, a child might say ‘’mouses” instead of ‘’mice” or ‘’foots” instead of ‘’feet.

Detailed explanation-4: -The language acquisition device (LAD) was proposed by Noam Chomsky to explain how children, when exposed to any human language, are able to learn it within only a few years following birth. Chomsky argued that all humans are born with the knowledge of what makes a human language.

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