CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who devised the Innatism theory?
A
Bruner
B
Piaget
C
Skinner
D
Chomsky
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Linguistic Theory was formed by Noam Chomsky who described language as having a grammar that is largely independent of language use. Unlike Behavioral Theory, Linguistic Theory argues that language acquisition is governed by universal, underlying grammatical rules that are common to all typically developing humans.

Detailed explanation-4: -Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky. The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.

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