Describe the terms surface structure and deep structure as characterized by psycholinguists Noam Chomsky and explain Chomsky's view on language acquisition in children.
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Surface structure: the superficial grammatical constructions in a language; these are unique to specific languages.
Deep structure: the underlying meanings in a language; a set of rules for transforming ideas into sentences.
From Chomsky's perspective, children are genetically prewired to attend to language and deduce the rules for constructing sentences from ideas.
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