Nativist Noam Chomsky proposed a "LAD", Language Acquisition Device, and believed that: a. Children are born with a series of inborn modules that are specialized for different aspects of language acquisition. b. Reinforcement and imitation do not fully explain language development. c. The rules of sentence organization are too complex to be directly taught to or discovered by even a cognitively adept young child. d. Children's innate desire to verbally interact with others promotes language development.
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