GENERAL THEORY

• What does Chomsky argue?

  We have a language acquisition device (LAD) which is the hard wiring of the human brain, language is innate and inbuilt
• what is a virtuous error?

  an error but there is a good reason for it
• you don’t need to be taught to speak, language is innovative, vast and varied. you can never be taught everything
• what is poverty of stimulus?

  children have not heard every word that exists, if they copied to speak then they wouldn’t be able to say what they can
• biological structures support

  Brocas and Wernickes area in the brain. Broca’s area is responsible for speech production, Wernicke’s involved in speech comprehension
• support for Chomsky

  languages around the world are structured in similar ways

  all children go through same language development stages
• examples of Chomsky

  calling pyjamas, pyjam as a singular
• What is universal grammar?

  Everyone learns grammar without consciously learning it, each language has their own grammar rules