Language Acquisition Device

Language Acquisition Device

All human being are born with an innate tendency to learn a language . This innate , language specific ability that facilitate the acquisition of language in man is called Language Acquisition Device. The LAD processes and shapes the primary linguistic data received by the child from his surroundings and enables him to acquire ideas about the rules of language. The LAD contains knowledge of grammatical rules common to all languages. LAD which encodes the major principles of a language and its grammatical structures into the child’s brain. Children have then only to learn new vocabulary and apply the syntactic structures from the LAD to form sentences

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