Chomsky's Model
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- Chomsky's Model
- Study of Language
- Signed and spoken language is genetically programmed into individuals.
- Claims that certain linguistic structures which children use so accurately must already be imprinted into a child's mind.
- Children are born with a structure in their brains that allows them to acquire and produce language.
- Arrangement of Words - Children have then only to learn new vocab and apply the syntactic structures from the LAD to form sentences.
- Chomsky points out that a child could not learn a language through copying alone. Adult's speech is often broken up.
- He proposed there is a critical period for first language development in the first years of life.
- Chomsky
- Stated that as children are 'preprogramed' to acquire language that it evolves naturally in the same way that children have ability to stand and walk.
- Theory applies to all languages as they contain nouns, verbs, consonants and vowels and children appear to be 'hard-wired' to acquire grammar.
- However, all children, regardless of their intellectual ability, become fluent in their native language with five or six years.
- Study of Language
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