According to Noam Chomsky, what is most puzzling about the ease with which children acquire language?
A) Children born in any place in the world learn the language of that place.
B) Children imitate the speech of their adult caregivers exactly.
C) Children learn language despite the impoverished nature of the stimulus.
D) Children tend to make the same mistakes in grammar that are made by their caregivers.

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Noam Chomsky finds it most puzzling that children are able to learn language despite the impoverished nature of the linguistic input they receive. In other words, children are able to construct complex grammatical rules and structures without being explicitly taught or receiving perfect models from their caregivers. This is known as the poverty of stimulus problem.

According to Noam Chomsky, What Is Most Puzzling About the Ease