Children learn rules of grammar before they learn the exceptions to them.In other words,the errors they make in language are associated with rules,not random patterns,as behaviorists suggested.This criticism represents the ideas of whom?
A)Noam Chomsky
B)Alfred Adler
C)Melissa Bowerman
D)Sigmund Freud

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Noam Chomsky is known for his criticism of behaviorist theories of language acquisition and proposed the idea of a universal grammar innate in all humans. He argued that children possess an innate ability to understand and generate language, which allows them to learn rules of grammar before exceptions to them.

Children Learn Rules of Grammar Before They Learn the Exceptions