GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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tabularasa
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language acquisition device
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developmental milestones
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The child’s natural predisposition to learn language is triggered by hearing speech and the child’s brain is able to interpret what s/he hears according to the underlying principles or structures it already contains. This natural faculty has become known as the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, is part of Chomsky’s acquisition hypothesis. The LAD is a system of principles that children are born with that helps them learn language, and accounts for the order in which children learn structures, and the mistakes they make as they learn.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the language acquisition device. Children also seem to have the ability to pluralize nouns. However, they often apply grammar rules to all words, including those that have exceptions. For example, a child might say ‘’mouses” instead of ‘’mice” or ‘’foots” instead of ‘’feet.
Detailed explanation-4: -Noam Chomsky was a pioneer of the Language Acquisition Device theory, in which he states that humans have an innate ability to learn language.