Practice mode Psychology

By what other name is Chomsky’s rationalist approach to language development known?

Correct answer B. Nativist

Explanation

Chomsky argued that humans are born with an innate language acquisition device and universal grammar, a nativist view opposed to the empiricist idea that language is learned purely by experience.

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