What factors affect language acquisition? Which factor do you believe has the largest influence on language acquisition? Explain why.

According to American linguist and Doctor Noam Chomsky, humans are born with a language acquisition device (LAD). This is an innate set of neural structures for acquiring language. We learn language as children at very young ages. This device operation allows children to be born "knowing" the features that are universal to language. There has been much debate over when the true critical time for language acquisition occurs, however, the common consensus seems to be within the first three years of life.

Another debate among this topic is the interplay of nature and nurture. How much depends on the brain we are born with and how much...