Carden believes that all babies are pre-programmed to learn language as evidenced by their natural ability to detect phonemes,and how rapidly they learn language.He has even gone so far as to suggest that our brains have built-in structures to allow us to acquire language.Which theorist would Carden's beliefs support?
A) B. F. Skinner
B) Naom Chomsky
C) Benjamin Whorf
D) Amos Tversky

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Carden's belief that babies are pre-programmed to learn language and the suggestion that our brains have built-in structures to allow us to acquire language align with the theories of Naom Chomsky, who argued for the existence of a language acquisition device (LAD) in the human brain that facilitates language learning. Skinner would not support the idea of innate language structures and Whorf's linguistic relativity theory is unrelated to the biological basis of language acquisition. Amos Tversky was a cognitive psychologist known for his work on decision-making, but he did not have a theory of language acquisition.

Carden Believes That All Babies Are Pre-Programmed to Learn Language