[velimir]

Hello Donnach,

Let's start from the whole sentence:

Chomsky suggested that children have a built-in mechanism, which he called the Language Acquisition Device, or LAD, which pre-programs them to develop grammar based on the linguistic input they receive.

This sentence can be splitted into the following functions:

Chomsky - subject

suggested - verb

the red painted part in the sentence above - direct object

Would you please analyse the object of the sentence(remove the conjunction "that" from the begining of it)and post your analysis ? That is,identify functions in the sentence which represents the direct object and indicate what is the form of every function in that sentence respectively.I think that it would be of great help for the explanation,and your better understanding of the issue.

Best regards

Velimir