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  1. There is no fundamental ability of language when a child is born.
  2. Children acquire language in different ways and at different rates depending on the culture into which they are born
  3. There is an innate human ability to acquire language
  4. Children learn language as a product of positive reinforcement.
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Option 3 : There is an innate human ability to acquire language

Noam Chomsky, known as the father of modern linguistics, has made a crucial contribution in the field of linguistics. He has proposed 'language acquisition theory' that is primarily related to language development.

  • It mainly emphasizes that 'children have an innate universal grammar' which helps them in acquiring and understanding grammar regardless of where or how they are raised.

   

  • Chomsky propounded an Innateness Theory. The central idea of the theory is that a child’s brain contains special language learning mechanisms at birth.
  • ‘Innateness’ in language refers to the natural ability of humans to speak a language. Chomsky proposed the assumption that humans have an innate capacity to acquire languages.
  • This theory emphasizes that children are born with an innate capacity for learning human language. Humans are destined to speak. Children discover the grammar of their language based on their own inborn grammar. 

Hence, it is clear that the 'There is an innate human ability to acquire language' was suggested by Noam Chomsky.

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