While I was reading Chomsky´s theory about First
Language Acquisition my kids, my boy who is almost two years old and my girl
who is six years old, were always on my mind. I couldn´t stop making connections
between my experience with their language acquisition and the theory I was
reading. I could see Chomsky´s theory put into practice in almost every point. However,
I tried to find something to reject it. Obviously, I couldn´t.
Chomsky is
great! It is unbelievable how he could explain so clearly something so
complicated but at the same time something that everyone in the world acquires
effortlessly.
The most
interesting point in his theory, from my point of view, was the explanation he
gave about how the input that children received changed when it was in the
black box (the Universal Grammar that we are born with) and developed allowing
them to produce output much more complex.
How is a
child able to produce utterances that he has never listened to? How is he able
to master the acquisition of any language in the world? The only person in
History that was able to explain it in a clear way was Chomsky.
Martínez Cintia.
