1. Firstly, kids all over the world learn language at roughly the same speed regardless of sex, race, culture or mother tongue (and there are some pretty major differences in attitudes towards teaching children across the globe).
2. Logical mistakes
3. Exceptions: one of the most convincing arguments against the imitation theory is that children who can't speak, but can hear, acquire normal understanding of speech. Eric Lennenburg (1962) researched the case of a boy like this who, for neuromuscular reasons was unable to speak.
4.Critical period - Chomskyis right in that we are born with LAD; Skinneris right in that your caregivers must reinforce and stimulate it - and Lennenburgis also right in saying this must be before a certain age.
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