Regarding the concept of the language acquisition device, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. It represents an innate mechanism in the brain for learning language.
b. It is believed to be prewired into the human nervous system.
c. Critics consider it an abstract concept rather than a physical structure in the brain .
d. It was developed by the linguist Noam Chomsky.
e. It explains how environment shapes language development.
e
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a. propensity and opportunity for deviance b. personality for and inability to control deviance c. temperament for and social reinforcers for deviance d. genetics for and an environmental upbringing for deviance
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a. semantic b. episodic c. procedural d. associative