GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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supports Chomsky’s assumption of a uniquely human capacity for an elaborate grammar.
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shows that animals can produce complex and novel sentences.
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shows that not even the brightest animals can comprehend language.
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shows that chimps are intelligent enough to comprehend and produce elaborate, human-like sentences.
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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: -How did Noam Chomsky influence the field of linguistics? Noam Chomsky’s linguistic research in the 1950s aimed to understand the tools and means through which children acquire language. He proposed a system of principles and parameters that suggested a child’s innate understanding of syntax and semantics.
Detailed explanation-3: -Whereas all animals, ourselves included, communicate, only humans use language to do so. That makes language special. To appreciate how, consider what it means to know language: All humans can name things.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nativist theories posit that children are born with the innate ability to acquire language and thus are able to acquire and master the grammar of their native language by the age of three.