Pinker critiques the acquisition of what in children?
Numerical skills
Past tense of verbs
Basic emotions
Moral values
Answer
Past tense of verbs: Pinker argues that children's acquisition of the past tense of verbs is not simply a matter of learning a set of rules. Instead, he proposes that children develop a mental representation of the verb system that allows them to generate the correct past tense form of any verb. This representation is based on a combination of innate knowledge and experience with the language.
Mastering the Mind: The Steven Pinker Challenge
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