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language acquisition device
noun
, Psycholinguistics.
- a hypothesized innate mental faculty present in infants that enables them to construct and internalize the grammar of their native language on the basis of the limited and fragmentary language input to which they are exposed. : LAD
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Word History and Origins
Origin of language acquisition device1
First recorded in 1960–65
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