hi im doin linguistics at the moment can anyone please answer this for me?

Question

What human language ability allows us to understand and produce new sentences?

Answer 1

Um.....I just took linguistics...tough class...I have a couple ideas for you, who knows if any of them are even close to right but here it goes.....

1. Discuss the mental lexicon.

2. Discuss Noam Chomskys theory on the Language Acquistion Device (LAD). I don't know if you discussed this in your class, but this is a theory that states taht all humans are born with an innate ability to learn language.