GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING
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Question
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Noam Chomsky views that much of language use ____
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is imitated behavior (e.g. children from their parents)
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is created a new from underlying knowledge of abstract rules (universal grammar).
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is learned by imitation and repetition
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is due to comprehensible input
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He has made a number of strong claims about language: in particular, he suggests that language is an innate faculty-that is to say that we are born with a set of rules about language in our minds, which he refers to as the ‘Universal Grammar’. The universal grammar is the basis upon which all human languages build.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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