GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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Noam Chomsky’s theory of language acquisition holds that people have an inborn universal grammar that makes learning of language easy for children. Which of the following statements is used as support for this theory?
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Children repeat words that they hear frequently.
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Regardless of the language learned, children tend to make similar errors of grammar when they first begin to learn language.
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Chimpanzees and other apes can easily learn language.
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Some children’s vocabularies are extensive, despite the fact that they may live in poor environments
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Chomsky concluded that children must have an inborn faculty for language acquisition. According to this theory, the process is biologically determined-the human species has evolved a brain whose neural circuits contain linguistic information at birth.
Detailed explanation-2: -He believed that humans are born with an innate ability to learn languages. According to Chomsky’s theory, the basic structures of language are already encoded in the human brain at birth. This “universal grammar theory” suggests that every language has some of the same laws.
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