試題詳解

2. McNeill and other researchers in the Chomskyan tradition composed eloquent arguments for the appropriateness of the language acquisition device (LAD) proposition. Which of the following could be a challenge to Nativist approaches to child language acquisition from later linguists?
(A) Children learn language not as a series of separate discrete items, but as an integrated system.
(B) As the child’s language develops, those hypotheses of language are continually revised, reshaped, or sometimes abandoned.
(C) A child’s (or adult’s) linguistic performance may be the consequence of many levels of simultaneous neural interconnections.
(D) Children have a blueprint in the brain that allows them to recognize the structure-dependence of language and to manipulate the structures.