Regarding Children's Language Development, Noam Chomsky Noted That Children Generate

question 48

Multiple Choice

Regarding children's language development, Noam Chomsky noted that children generate many sentences they have never heard before. From this, he concluded that language development is driven largely by

• A) an inborn biological program.
• B) cultural influences.
• C) classical conditioning.
• D) operant conditioning.

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Definitions:

Marginal Rate of Substitution

The rate at which a consumer is willing to give up one good in exchange for another, keeping utility constant.

Rational

The quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic.

Indifference Curves

A graph representing different bundles of goods between which a consumer is indifferent, showing equal levels of utility.

Preference Map

A relationship between two variables, X and Y, in which a decrease in X is associated with a decrease in Y, and an increase in X is associated with an increase in Y.