The Innate theory is a prevailing perspective on first language (L1) acquisition. It was proposed by the famous 20th century American linguist
Noam Chomsky. The theory postulates that human beings have the general ability to acquire language and that this ability comes from a
Language Acquisition Device or
LAD. The LAD is genetically set in the brain and consists of Universal Grammar or UG. UG contains
language universals or specific grammatical rules and principles that are common to all human languages. But this concept of innateness is not the sole innovation of Chomsky. His innateness hypothesis is related to the concept of Plato’s and Descartes’ innateness ideas. Even the idea of a Universal Grammar is related to the works of the ancient
Greeks and
Romans, the speculative woks of those medieval
Modistae Grammarians, and the prescriptive approaches of the 17th century
Port-Royal Grammarians.
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