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lANGUAGE ACQUISITION
bEHAVIORAL
(No header)   • Imitation and reinforcement  • learned as other behaviors  • Parents reinforce meaning  • Comprehension before production
Limitations
Predictions wrong about word acquisition
How to explain utterancE
Nativist-Syntactic
Inborn ability-Language Acqusition device
Language device
Role of input?    Other parts of language?  Role of input?
Semantic-Cognitive
Meaning before structure  Utterances have many meanings
COGNITION BEFORE LANGUAGE
Relationship of cognition and language is COMPLEX
SOCIAL INTERACTION
Need to communicate precedes language   parents alter language
Account for specific structure    Child's ROLE ?
INFORMATION PROCESSING
Competition eliminates lack of success
LIMITED RESEARCH EVIDENCE
EMERGENTIST
LANGUAGE CREATED THROUGH SYNTHESIS OF INPUT AND BIOLOGY
LIMITED EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THEORY

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