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Language acquisition device

The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported instinctive mental capacity which enables an infant to acquire and produce language. It is a component of the nativist theory of language. This theory asserts that humans are born with the instinct or…

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Language acquisition device → Allesandro, Aspects, Benati, Bill, Briscoe, Chomsky, Cite, CiteSeerX, Coevolution, Continuum, Grammatical Acquisition, Inductive Bias, Introduction, Kennison, Key Terms, Language, Los Angeles, MIT Press, Noam, S2CID

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