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language acquisition device  

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  • The language acquisition device (LAD) was proposed by Noam Chomsky to explain how children, when exposed to any human language, are able to learn it within only a few years following birth. Chomsky argued that all humans are born with the knowledge of what makes a human language. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Language Acquisition Device]

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