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Language Acquisition Leaflet
Language Acquisition Leaflet
The creator of
Child language acquisition theorists.
“LASS” By Peter Beadle 13 NS
As Chomsky suggests, a Language
Acquisition Device, or LAD, there must also Loam Chomsky = The “LAD” of child
be a Language Acquisition Support System, acquisition. Chomsky proposes that "all
or LASS. He is referring to the family and children share the same internal contraints
entourage of the child. So basically you can which characterize narrowly the grammar
look round at your family and blame them they are going to construct." His “LAD”
for your intelligence! Good or bad thing? If theory concerns the idea of an innate
we watch closely the way a child interacts ability to acquire knowledge. Although
with the adults around her, we will see that Chomsky has gradually left this concept
they constantly provide opportunities for her behind in favour of a parameter setting
to acquire her mother - tongue. The child model, he’ll still be the first “LAD” to us.
soon starts to predict its parent’s actions.