Nativism- Chomsky

Main Point

children do not learn from imitation because caregivers do not give a good enough example of language (poverty of stimulus)

What is a language acquisition device(LAD)

its basically a small computaa that everyone is born with and through this they can learn language

Chomsky suggested that

LAD contained a set of rules about how to use grammar and that as children become more exposed to the language use of others different parts of their LAD start to activate

What is universal grammar?

the view that we are all born with the same potential

because the brain

is so complex there is no scientific proof of the existence of any of the concepts suggested

One criticism

Chomsky theory was based of off personal observation only