According to Noam Chomsky's view of language acquisition,a child whose parents speak French will:
A) learn French via genetics
B) be genetically programmed the same way a German child is to facilitate the learning of language
C) begin life with no facility for learning language and, therefore, have to learn it all from his parents and other models
D) have more difficulty than children learning an easier language such as Spanish

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According to Noam Chomsky's view of language acquisition, all children are born with a language acquisition device (LAD), which is a cognitive ability that enables them to learn language. The LAD is universal and genetically programmed the same way in all children, regardless of the language being learned. Therefore, a child whose parents speak French will have the same ability to learn language as a child whose parents speak any other language, including German.

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