s theory to be discussed and not all of them can be taken up within the space of a few pages, we shall have to content with a brief discussion of some important pointsРThe innateness of hypothesis.Р Chomsky believes that language is somewhat innate, and that children are born with what he calls a Lnaguage Acquisition Device(LAD), which is a unique kind of knowledge that fits them for language learning . He argues the es into the world with specific innate endowment, not only with general tendencies or potentialities , but also with knowledge of the nature of the world , and specifically with knowledge of the nature of language . According to this view, children are born with knowledge of the basic grammatical relations and categories, and this knowledge is universialРB)The general grammar.
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