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How well does the development of children's understanding of English grammar support any one of the theories of language acquisition which you have studied?
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How well does the development of children's understanding of English grammar support any one of the theories of language acquisition which you have studied? It is my opinion that children's understanding of grammar can be used to support any of the theories of language acquisition, and I also believe that many aspects of the different theories are used when a child acquires language. However, I have decided to use evidence to support the Innateness theory proposed by Noam Chomsky. The innateness theory suggests that a child is born with an innate capacity to learn language; the brain is programmed and ready for language at birth. When a child is expose to speech, principals for structuring and learning language automatically develop. Chomsky calls this process a Language Acquisition Device (LAD). He states that when the input is primary linguistic data i.e. adult speech - the LAD uses general learning principals...
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