According to Noam Chomsky, what is most puzzling about the ease with which children acquire language?
A) Children born in any place in the world learn the language of that place.
B) Children imitate the speech of their adult caregivers exactly.
C) Children learn language despite the impoverished nature of the stimulus.
D) Children tend to make the same mistakes in grammar that are made by their caregivers.

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Chomsky argues that children can learn complex language systems even though the language input they receive (the stimulus) is often incomplete or imperfect, which he refers to as the "poverty of the stimulus." This concept challenges the behaviorist view that language learning is solely a result of imitation and reinforcement.

According to Noam Chomsky, What Is Most Puzzling About the Ease