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Question 1

Nativist - poverty stimulus

Answer 1

• chomskys theory states that children cannot learn through the imitation of their caregivers because they provide a ‘povert os stimulus’
• POS states that the caregiver of children do not provide a good enough standard of language (and often break the rules)
• hence why children have something inbuilt within their brains - LAD

Question 2

Support for Chomsky - Wug Test

Answer 2

• created by Jean Berko Gleason
• children were given a picture of.a bird like creature called a wug and were asked what two of these creatures would be called (wugs)
• most of the children identified it as wugs
• this test invented nouns and verbs to test pluralisation and over-generalisation
• the test used words that children will not have encountered before and so proves that children learn t(e rule and do not imitate

Question 3

Support for Chomsky- genie