GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Bloch and Trager
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Derbyshire
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Lyons
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Noam Chomsky
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Chomsky, language is a natural object, a component of the human mind, physically represented in the brain and part of the biological endowment of the species (Chomsky, 2002: 1).
Detailed explanation-2: -NOAM CHOMSKY-says the language is the inherent capability of the native speakers to understand and form grammatical sentences. A language is a set of sentences, each finite length and constructed out of a finite set of elements. This definition of language considers sentences as the basis of language.
Detailed explanation-3: -Universal Grammar (UG) is a theoretical concept proposed by Noam Chomsky (not without criticism or controversy from scholars in the scientific community) that the human brain contains an innate mental grammar that helps humans acquire language.