Many theorists believe that people have an innate predisposition to learn language. Three of the following provide sources of evidence that these theorists use to support their belief. Which one is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learn language?

Group of answer choices

1. Children develop increasingly larger and more sophisticated vocabularies as they grow older.

2. Most languages have certain characteristics in common, such as similar ways of forming negatives.

3. Children sometimes learn a language more easily when they are exposed to it at a young age.

4. People in the same community learn the same language despite very different experiences with that language.

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Olive Leonard

Social Studies

26 July, 15:31

Many theorists believe that people have an innate predisposition to learn language. Three of the following provide sources of evidence that these theorists use to support their belief. Which one is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learn language?

Group of answer choices

1. Children develop increasingly larger and more sophisticated vocabularies as they grow older.

2. Most languages have certain characteristics in common, such as similar ways of forming negatives.

3. Children sometimes learn a language more easily when they are exposed to it at a young age.

4. People in the same community learn the same language despite very different experiences with that language.

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Lindsey · Answer 1

1. Children develop increasingly larger and more sophisticated vocabularies as they grow older.

Explanation:

In the 1960, Noam Chomsky proposed the LAD concept which explained a child's natural ability to learn and produce language, a component of the nativist theory of language which supports this instinctual capacity. These theories were based on supporting evidence of human inheritance of language predisposition.

The above answer does not support theorists claim however, that all human beings possess an inherited predisposition to learn language.