CHOMSKY THEORY

How does language develop in children according to Chomsky?

• It is an innate ability of children

• It develops due to its social environment

• You learn because of the listening process

• Depends on the social, political, cultural and educational context

Study the order and relationship of the words:

• Phonetics

• Phonetics

• Syntax

• Grammar

Which theorist hypothesized that children are born with a language acquisition device?

• Chomsky

• Piaget

• Skinner

• Vygotsky

Language is a natural object, a component of the human mind, physically represented in the brain and part of the biological endowment of the species

• Saussure

• Blomfield

• Plato

• Chomsky

It is the product of a species-specific innate language faculty, which is independent of other cognitive capacities, it meand the knowledge of language.

• Linguistic performance

• Linguistic comptence

• Linguistic sign

• Nativism

According to Chomsky , language is an innate faculty, that is, humans are born with a set of rules about language, referred to as UG, it corresponds to the definitions of

• Linguistic Knowledge

• Nativism

• Essentialism

• External language

is interested in postulating universals of human linguistic structures, unlearned but tacitly known, that permit and assist children to acquire human languages.

• Competence

• Performance

• Essentialism

• nativism

Refers to language data or corpus

which is external to the mind.

• Internal language

• external language

• Nativism

• Structuralism

It refres to the internalized language – the properties of the mind of individuals who know them.

• Essentialism

• Internal language

• Nativism

• Universal grammar

Chomsky virtually reduces language to its grammar

• Reductionalism

• Grammar

• Essentialism

• Competence