Language Acquisition and Innate Structures

According to the passage, what sets humans apart from other animals?

• Their ability to communicate

• Their sophisticated grammar

• Their innate ideas

• Their blank slate minds

What did Noam Chomsky demonstrate in the 1960s?

• Children have enough information to form complex grammatical maneuvers

• Children cannot generate unlimited new and original sentences

• Children have a natural propensity to organize spoken language

• Children's minds are blank slates

What did Chomsky propose as the reason for children's ability to learn language easily?

• They have a poverty of stimulus

• They have innate structures in their brain

• They have a universal grammar

• They have a blank slate mind

What is the term used by Chomsky to describe the inborn structures in our brain for language acquisition?

• Language acquisition device

• Universal grammar

• El-ad

• Stimulus poverty

According to Chomsky, when does language structure become hardwired?

• During childhood

• During language learning

• Before birth

• After emerging from the womb