Question

The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by ....................

• A. Noam Chomsky
• B. Skinner
• C. Lev Vygotsky
• D. Jerome Bruner

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Noam Chomsky

• The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. 
• The LAD concept is a purported instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language. 
• It is a component of the nativist theory of language. 
• Chomsky concluded that children must have an inborn faculty for language acquisition.
• According to this theory, the process is biologically determined - the human species has evolved a brain whose neural circuits contain linguistic information at birth.