A key point in Noam Chomsky's approach to psycholinguistics is an emphasis on
a. how children learn language by operant conditioning.
b. how each language in the world has its own unique set of rules about syntax.
c. how humans have language skills that are inborn.
d. how language is closely connected with other cognitive skills.
Ans: c
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