Who argued that we are born with a fixed set of switches (parameters), the positions of which are set by exposure to particular languages?

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This is a central theory in the field of linguistics coined by Noam Chomsky, known as the "Language Acquisition Device" (LAD). It proposes that humans are born with an innate ability to learn language and that the parameters of language are hard-wired into our brains.

Who Argued That We Are Born with a Fixed Set