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V@ndy87

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Chomsky proposed that children are born with a specialized mental organ, the language acquisition device (LAD), which allows them to
 
  a. understand any language that is spoken around them at birth.
  b. speak any language fluently once they learn the pragmatics of the language.
  c. compare the structure of the language they hear to the innate grammar they were born with and make appropriate modifications.
  d. develop expertise in the form of the language that is spoken around them.

Question 2

Universal grammar refers to
 
  a. the basic speech abilities that most humans are born with.
  b. the basic grammatical rules that typify all languages.
  c. the nonverbal ways in which people from all cultures communicate with each another.
  d. the basic sentence structures that ate common to all languages.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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Reply #2 on: Jun 22, 2018
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