Historically, many theories of development have pitted biology, or nature, again

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Historically, many theories of development have pitted biology, or nature, against environment, or nurture. For example, attempts to explain the ease with which babies acquire language focused either on the ways in which parents teach language to their children or on the emergence of the infant's innate language abilities. Behaviorist B. F. Skinner believed that language development could be explained entirely by principles of learning, including imitation, reinforcement, and discrimination. Arguing against the nurture position, linguist Noam Chomsky maintained that language is far too complex to be mastered so early and so easily through learning alone. Instead, Chomsky maintained that our language capacity is inborn. More recently, developmentalists have concluded that both Skinner's and Chomsky's theories have some validity but that neither is completely correct; rather, it is the interaction of nature and nurture win a specific social context that accounts for the ease with which children acquire language. In this exercise, review the following examples of language use and decide whether each provides evidence of the impact of nature, nurture, or the interaction of nature and nurture in language development. Explain your reasoning. 1. Whenever 8-month-old Juwan wants his mother, he calls out "mama" and she comes running. Consequently, Juwan utters "mama" much more frequently now than he did at 7 months of age

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There are different theories associated with the development and learning of language by child like skinner theory, piaget theory, Bruner theory.Skinner theory believes in the environmental factors influencing the family which are involved in the learning of language by a child, Piaget theory believes in the development and learning of language by child due to the development of learning process in the language region part of the brain of child,Bruner theory depends upon the social intercation factors involved in the community associated with the development of language in child.

Chomsky theory believes that language can only be learned after the analysis of grammer of the language as well the vocabulary.

Fodor theory of language learning can be implemented in the scenario of Juwan which states that when specific vocabulary words are repeated daily in the surrounding environment of child, then the child has the tendency to grasp these words in the central processing memory circuit of the brain and child learns quickly to respond to the word by quickly responding and phonetically pronouncing and speaking the word repeatedly as a sign of love and care from the mother which is a sign of affection along with the repeated utterance of vulgar words also by the child if the child is exposed to the utterance of such words in the surrounding and the child does not have the cognitive ability to differentiate the meaning of the word.

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