Susan is a 21-month-old who has just begun to make two-word sentences. Her sentences already reveal the grammar of her native language, as she orders her nouns and verbs in the order that mature speakers of her language use. Chomsky would attribute Susan's quick acquisition of grammatical rules to her _____.

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Chomsky proposed the idea of a Language Acquisition Device (LAD), a innate mechanism in the brain that allows children to acquire language quickly and with little formal instruction. The LAD allows children to recognize and reproduce the grammar and syntax of their native language. Therefore, Chomsky would attribute Susan's quick acquisition of grammatical rules to her Language Acquisition Device.

Susan Is a 21-Month-Old Who Has Just Begun to Make