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 just as mature speakers of her language do. Chomsky would attribute Susan's quick acquisition of grammatical rules to her _____.

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Chomsky's theory of language acquisition states that children are born with a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) that allows them to quickly and unconsciously learn the grammatical rules of their native language. Therefore, Susan's quick acquisition of grammatical rules can be attributed to her LAD.

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