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What were the contributions of Noam Chomsky to the theory of language development in children

What were the contributions of Noam Chomsky to the theory of language development in children

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DALMUS
1.Chomsky discovered that if an adult deliberately said a grammatically incorrect sentence the child would notice.
2.Chomsky discovered that children do not learn from imitation only.An example is in mistakes such as 'I drawed' instead 'I Drew's.
3.Chomsky discovered that children often say things that are ungrammatical such as 'mama ball', which they cannot have learnt passively.
4.Chomsky discovered that children learning to speak never made grammatical errors such as getting their subjects ,verbs and objects in the wrong order.
DALMUS AKAMA answered the question on October 6, 2017 at 04:13

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