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State the Sverker Johnson's (1999) arguments in favor of the innateness hypothesis.

      

State the Sverker Johnson's (1999) arguments in favor of the innateness hypothesis.

  

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Francis
1. It is self –evident that there’s some innate component in our language acquisition- other animals normally don’t acquire language, and the difference between them and us is to a large extent innate.
2. Language acquisition would be difficult or even impossible without an innate grammar: How do we come to have such rich and specific knowledge or such intricate system of belief and understanding, when the evident available to us is so meager Chomsky ( in Cook 1988)
3. The mere existence of language universals supports the hypothesis that these are innate.
francis1897 answered the question on March 8, 2023 at 11:22


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