Questão 96701 de Língua Inglesa - PORTAL CONCURSOS 2025

Questão

ID 96701

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Assunto: Aquisição de Segunda Língua | Second Language Acquisition

Ano: 2025 Banca: PORTAL CONCURSOS Órgão: PORTAL CONCURSOS

Noam Chomsky's introduction of the Language Acquisition Device (LAD) and the theory of Universal Grammar (UG) represented a paradigm shift from behaviorist perspectives. He posited that the linguistic input a child receives is inherently insufficient—a concept known as the 'poverty of the stimulus'—to account for the rapid and systematic acquisition of a complex grammatical system. Therefore, an innate, genetically determined language faculty must exist. However, this influential theory has faced substantial criticism over the decades from various linguistic and psychological fields. Considering the evolution of language acquisition studies, which of the following statements represents the most significant and empirically supported critique of Chomsky's innatist framework?

Alternativa A:
The theory's complete disregard for the role of social interaction, which has been shown by interactionist theories to be fundamental in guiding and structuring language learning through mechanisms like scaffolding.
Alternativa B:
The failure of the theory to account for the existence of a critical period for language acquisition, a phenomenon that strongly supports biological constraints on learning.
Alternativa C:
The assertion that language acquisition is a domain-specific process, whereas substantial evidence from connectionist modeling suggests that language can emerge from domain-general cognitive mechanisms, such as pattern recognition and statistical learning, without recourse to pre-specified grammatical rules.
Alternativa D:
The lack of neurological evidence pinpointing a specific, localized 'Language Acquisition Device' in the brain, weakening its biological plausibility.
Alternativa E:
The inability of the Universal Grammar framework to explain the linguistic diversity observed across the world's languages, suggesting that the proposed universal principles are too abstract to be meaningful.

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