CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Chomsky’s theories inspired psycholinguists to record and describe the developing grammars on
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Behaviorist Theory
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The Acquisition and Learning Hypothesis
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Innatist Perspective Language
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None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Chomsky’s innatist view states that humans possess a genetically determined language faculty that makes up one element of the human mind. A fixed, genetically determined system constrains the forms of language that can appear, but the structures of language are set in motion through interaction with the en-vironment.

Detailed explanation-2: -First Language Acquisition Perspective Noam Chomsky (2002) stated the innatist theory. He mentioned that children were born with the ability to acquire language (innate). He argued that language acquisition of children be related to their innate ability of biological language acquisition device (LAD).

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: Psycholinguistics is the study of the interrelation between language factors and mental and emotional qualities. According to Noam Chomsky, those factors are innate and humans are hard-wired for complex syntactic features. Chomsky espouses that those abilities are only found in humans.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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