Accordingly Andrew Radford, and Harald Clahsen et al. which presuppose the existence of an innate language acquisition device (LAD) helping us solve the task of acquiring the complicated linguistic system by providing a "ready-made" underlying fundamental structure, the Universal Grammar (UG). In this essay I am going to present and discuss two hypotheses of language acquisition which follow the generative approach, i.e. A number of different approaches exists which can be subsumed under the headings "behaviourist", "interactionist", "nativist", "cognitivist" or the like, and each of these major currents bifurcates into sub-theories which often enough seem to be incompatible with each other again. Language acquisition seems to be subject to a paradox like probably all matters connected with the human language: every-one acquires his or her first language with relative ease in a few years – it is a matter of course (except if disabilities or social deprivations obstruct this natural process) - but even the most learned scholars cannot offer a satisfactory and all-encompassing explanation about how this process works. The Lexical Learning Hypothesis by Harald Clahsen et alģ.2.2. Radford's Minimal Projection HypothesisĢ.1.2.
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