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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 106

Topic: Language acquisition

Q106

Chomsky propounded that an innate capacity to acquire language is the result of our uniquely human biological inheritance. This inheritance is known as

  1. (1) language adaptation degree
  2. (2) language acquire domain
  3. (3) language acceptance desire
  4. (4) language acquisition deviceCorrect answer

Solution.

CBSE answer: (4)

Answer: (4) language acquisition device

  1. Noam Chomsky argued that children are born with an inborn ability to learn language.
  2. He called this built-in mental capacity the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
  3. It explains how children pick up complex grammar quickly from limited input.

Trap: the other options only copy the initials LAD; they are not real terms.