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Mark Gold developed a paradigm exploring this process through induction “in the limit.” Mutual and combinatorial entailment describe “arbitrarily applicable relational responding” that allows this process to occur according to relational frame theory. Theories of this process must meet “explanatory adequacy.” This process begins with a set of unbounded and unordered objects in Merge-based theories, which explain strong generation within the (15[1])(*) Minimalist Program of it. B. F. Skinner’s theory (10[1])of this process was tackled with the “poverty (10[2])of the stimulus” (10[1])argument by Noam Chomsky, (10[1])who believed that children make use of innate rules to complete this process. (10[1])For 10 points, name this process by which children develop the ability to communicate. ■END■

ANSWER: first language acquisition [or learning a first language; or L1 acquisition or L1 learning; or learning to speak, learning speech, developing speech, speech acquisition, or equivalents; prompt on development or learning; reject “second language acquisition” or “L2 acquisition”]
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