Question

According to Noam Chomsky, the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) refers to:

• A. a teaching strategy used by parents to help children learn language
• B. an innate mental capacity that enables children to acquire language naturally
• C. a set of grammar rules learned through imitation and repetition
• D. a social mechanism developed through interaction with peers

Answer 1

Answer:

B. an innate mental capacity that enables children to acquire language naturally

• According to Noam Chomsky, the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a hypothetical, innate biological mechanism in the human brain that allows children to acquire and produce language.

• Chomsky argued that humans are born with a "mental blueprint" or "hard-wired" capacity for language, which contains the basic principles of Universal Grammar common to all human languages.