What does LAD stand for?

Language Acquisition Device (brain structure; Chomsky)

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If there is a Language Acquisition Device, the input to it is not a shower of spoken language but a highly interactive affair" (Bruner 39).

(The) English article and ell students

Coverage includes an historical overview of the study of the origin and evolution of language; Logan's development of the Extended Mind Model; a critique of Noam Chomsky's notion of the hard-wiring of the Universal Grammar and the Language Acquisition Device, from the perspective of the Extended Mind Model; a synthesis of the Extended Mind Model with other approaches, among them the work of Andy Clark, Ray Jackendoff, and John Schumann; and an exploration of the relationship of language and culture and the parallels that can be drawn between the two phenomena.

The extended mind; the emergence of language, the human mind, and ...

By acknowledging this, we understand that SLA responds to a psychological complexity that extends beyond our current knowledge of any possible cognitively autonomous language acquisition device.

Input processing revisited