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Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition
Analyze theoretical frameworks for understanding language acquisition and structure
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Explain Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar and its role in explaining language acquisition. Discuss the Poverty of the Stimulus argument and how it supports the existence of innate linguistic structures. Contrast the nativist approach with empiricist and constructivist theories of language acquisition. Provide evidence from at least two different linguistic phenomena that support or challenge the Universal Grammar hypothesis. Finally, discuss how modern computational and neurological evidence has influenced this theoretical debate.