development are central facts which a theory of language acquisition must seek to explain . But how ?
Chomsky maintains that the most plausible explanation for the uniformity and rapidity of first language acquisition is to posit that the course of acquisition is determined by a biologically endowed innate language faculty ( or language acquisition program to borrow a computer software metaphor ) within the human brain . This provides children with a genetically transmitted set of procedures for developing a grammar which enables them to produce and understand sentences in the language they are acquiring on the basis of their linguistic experience ( I.e. on the basis of the speech inpu they receive ). The way in which Chomsky Visualises the acquisition process can be
represented schematically as in below ( where L is the language being acquired ):