Nativism overall content

Question 1

Who is frequently associated with nativism and why?

Answer 1

Noam Chomsky
—> LAD - language aquisition device, found in humans but not animals

Question 2

What are the basics of nativism?

Answer 2

children experience the same stages of development at the same time

Question 3

Give 4 key aspects of nativism

Answer 3

• children resist correction
• children create forms of language that adults do not use —> runned instead of run
• children make up their own rules for language
• children procure correct language when surrounded by poor adult speech

Question 4

What are the 4 challenges/objections towards nativism?

Answer 4

• children do stop overgeneralising and learn to use correct language
• children who have been deprived of social interactions and contact cant achieve complete communicativ competance —> genie
• LAD has never been discovered in the brain

Question 5

Who is Genie - nativism

Answer 5

As a child she was deprived of social contact for the first 13 years of her life so she missed her critical development period for learning language.