Noam Chomsky and Innatist Perspective Quiz

What do researchers from the innatist perspective argue about language acquisition?

• Complex grammar cannot be learned through imitation

• Language is solely learned from the environment

• Children learn language through imitation and practice

• Children learn language from a blank slate

What does the innatist perspective emphasize about language acquisition?

• Children are biologically programmed for language

• Language is solely learned from the environment

• Language is a purely social construct

• Language is a result of imitation

What do children achieve in terms of language systems according to the innatist perspective?

• Different levels of vocabulary and creativity

• Social grace and language patterns

• Complex language systems

• All of the above

Why did Chomsky argue that the behaviourist theory failed?

• Children know more about language structure than they hear

• Children imitate language from the environment

• Children learn language through imitation and practice

• Children learn language from a blank slate

Who is considered one of the most influential figures in linguistics?

• Noam Chomsky

• Steven Pinker

• Edward Sapir

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Chomsky said that language acquisition is very similar because...

• parents talk to their children for them to speak properly

• Because we all learn languages by repetition

• the enviroment only makes basic contribution, the rest is done by the child or his biological endowment.

• the reinformente helps to acquire language

The innatist perspective emphasizes the fact that almost all children success fully acquire their native language-or more than one language if they live in...

• the house with their parents

• a multilingual comunity

• a comunity tha speaks the same language

• a place where they can speak an make mistakes

Even children with very limited cognitive ability develop quite complex language systems if they are brought up in environments in which people interact...

• peacefully

• all the week

• with respect

• with them