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NATIVIST THEORY

1. NATIVIST THEORY

2. ACQUISITION LANGUAGE

3. Language Acquisition The process of attaining a specific variant of human language. The process of learning a native or a second language. By itself, language acquisition refers to first language acquisition , which studies infants' acquisition of their native language, whereas second language acquisition deals with acquisition of additional languages in both children and adults.

4. Language Acquisition Device (LAD) Properties of LAD Universal Grammar Noam Chomsky Nativist Theory

5. Noam Chomsky Born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania He is an American Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Philosopher  historian, political activist, and social critic Achieved Bachelors Degree in Linguistic in 1941 Masters Degree in 1951 and Doctorate Degree 1955 His parents were prominent Hebrew Scholars

6. He said that every child is born with a biological predisposition to learn language- any language He came up with the idea of a language organ, which is known as the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) . children have been observed to pick up grammar and syntax without any formal teaching (in spoken language). They seem to learn these fundamentals of their native language(s) purely from the input around them. Noam Chomsky

7. Acquisition is innately determined, that we are born with a built-in-device of some kind that predisposes us to language acquisition . Children are biologically programmed for language acquisition. NATIVIST THEORY

8. Human abilities and development are innate and haired-wired at birth . By Noam Chomsky, stating that children's brains contain a Language Acquisition Device which holds the grammatical universals. NATIVIST THEORY

9. The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is the innate biological ability of humans to acquire and develop language. He proposed to explain how children, when exposed to any human language, are able to learn it within only a few years following birth . Chomsky argued that all humans are born with the knowledge of what makes a human language . LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE (LAD)

10. Included in this innate knowledge must be details of important characteristics of all the world’s languages. The term  universal grammar  has been used to describe the knowledge contained in the LAD. The process of language development is envisioned as one in which the child discovers which grammar rules contained within universal grammar apply to the language that the child is learning. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE (LAD)

11. Ability to distinguish speech sounds from other sounds in the environment . Ability to organize linguistic events into various classes which can later be refined. LINGUISTICS PROPERTIES OF LAD

12. Knowledge that only a certain kind of linguistic system is possible and that other kinds are not Ability to engage in constant evaluation of the developing linguistic system LINGUISTICS PROPERTIES OF LAD

13. UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR A set of innate principles and adjustable parameters that are common to all human languages Focuses on the structural relationships rather than the linear order of the words e.g. Your cat is friendly? Is your cat friendly?

14. The child’s language at any stage is systematic in that the child is constantly forming hypotheses on the basis of the input received and then testing those hypotheses in speech. As the child’s language develops, those hypotheses get continually revised, reshaped or sometimes abandoned LAD hypothesize the grammar in the language you are exposed to If it is fits to the grammar, then continue the hypothesis, but if it is not, there is a testing of a new hypothesis again UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR

15. Summary Children are born with a specific innate ability to discover for themselves the underlying rules of a language system on the basis of the samples of a natural language they are exposed to Language acquisition is something that happens to a child placed in a certain environment not something the child does Children acquisition of grammatical rules is guided by principles of an innate UG which could apply to all language

16. G roup 2: Nativist Theory Members: Miralles , Victor A. Mabute , Mesaley B. Matela , A ngelie May A. Moldes , Cristy Locsin , Jessa Mae G. Gerez , Maricar Baldos , Mark ALANGALANG TOWN PLAZA