Child Language Acquisition - LAD & LASS

LAD and LASS are theories by cognitive theorists Chomsky and Bruner

LAD (Noam Chomsky)

• LAD stands for Language Acquisition Device 
• In this theory, Chomsky argues that the linguistic development for children is innate, meaning all children are born with it
• This is proved by the similarities between completely different languages, so for example, all children use the 'SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT' structure…