![]() ![]() Hence, with this idea in mind, nativists argue that the foundations of language and grammar are innate and not acquired through learning. More often than not, unlike children, adults are unable to acquire skills similar to those of their families. Moreover, unlike children who learn a language easily, adult learners who have passed the critical age for language acquisition find that the complexity of a language often makes it difficult to acquire a second language. Moreover, in his work “Language Instinct” Pinker argued that language in humans is a biological adaptation – language is rigidly built into the human mind as a result of evolution. Stephen Pinker confirms Chomsky’s opinion that a person’s ability to language is innate. ![]() According to Noam Chomsky, “the speed and accuracy of vocabulary acquisition do not leave any real alternative to the conclusion that the child somehow possesses the concepts available before the language experience, and basically memorizes the labels for the concepts that are already part of him or her. This highlights the possibility that humans have an innate ability to acquire language. Moreover, research has shown that language acquisition by children (including the blind and deaf) occurs at ordered developmental stages. However, despite the complexity of the language, children can accurately learn the language in a short period of time. Human language is complex and considered one of the most difficult areas of human cognition. Linguistic nativism is a theory that people are born with the knowledge of a language: they acquire language not only through learning. ![]()
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