GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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Language is an entirely learned ability
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Language is an innate ability
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Humans have a biological predisposition to acquire language
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Therer are no cultural influences on the development of language
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Detailed explanation-1: -D) There are no cultural influences on the development of language. Humans have a biological predisposition to acquire language. Whorf’s linguistic determination hypothesis states that: A) language is primarily a learned ability.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -According to Chomsky, an innate capacity to acquire language is the result of our uniquely human biological inheritance which is called the ‘Language Acquisition Device’. He put forth the innate proposition or biological predisposition of the development of language.
Detailed explanation-4: -Chomsky based his theory on the idea that all languages contain similar structures and rules (a universal grammar), and the fact that children everywhere acquire language the same way, and without much effort, seems to indicate that we’re born wired with the basics already present in our brains.
Detailed explanation-5: -Which statement best summarizes Chomsky’s views on language development? Humans are born with with a universal grammar.