KE A2 Chomsky Recap
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What does LAD stand for?
Language acquisition device
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What does innate mean?
Born with
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What is the LAD?
A hypothetical tool within the brain
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What did Chomsky believe?
Children are born with an inherited ability to learn any human language
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What is the critical period acting to Chomsky’s theory?
A period of time for an individual to acquire language after this time, the individual will never achieve a full command of language
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What is an example that supports the critical period
The Genie case
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What did Chomsky refer the underlying mechanisms of language to?
Universal grammar
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Chomsky believed language is a basic human instinct. True or false?
True
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