Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device suggests that
A) humans are biologically prewired to learn language at a certain time in a certain way.
B) there is a physical structure in the brain exclusively for language acquisition.
C) language acquisition is strictly influenced by environment.
D) language is acquired and stored in the right hemisphere of the brain.

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Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device proposes that humans have an innate ability to acquire language, and that there is a biologically determined window of time during which language acquisition happens most easily. This suggests that language acquisition is not only influenced by environment, but also has a biological basis. There is no specific physical structure exclusively for language acquisition, and language is not stored exclusively in the right hemisphere of the brain.

Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device Suggests That