Question

PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THING AND ANSWER IN DETAILS For this discussion, try to defend a view of language as primarily learned or primarily innate. Be careful to base your discussion on studies you've found through PsychINFO and ideas from the text. As you discuss this issue, be sure to include responses to these questions.

Do you view language as primarily learned or primarily innate? Why?

What brain structures we’ve studied seem to support Chomsky’s view that we have an inborn universal grammar that will unfold if we are exposed to language?

How might Chomsky explain a perfectly normal two-year old who used to say “I brushed my teeth” but suddenly starts saying “I brushed my tooths?”