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7 wrz 2023 · Chomsky’s theory of language acquisition, known as Universal Grammar, posits that language is an innate capacity of humans. According to Chomsky, children are born with a language acquisition device (LAD), a biological ability that enables them to acquire language rules and structures effortlessly.
Constructivist theories explain how children reconstruct the system of their target language(s) given their emergent social-cognitive abilities, and their growing experience with the ambient language usage.
A book that reviews the major debates in child language acquisition research, comparing generativist and constructivist perspectives on phonology, word learning, inflection and syntax. It evaluates the empirical evidence for each approach and provides a comprehensive introduction to the field.
1 sty 2018 · This paper reviews three main theoretical perspectives on language learning and acquisition in an attempt to elucidate how people acquire their first language (L1) and learn their second language (L2).
2 sty 2015 · This chapter outlines a constructivist account of the process of language acquisition. It summarizes the constructivist account of development, and the current state of the empirical evidence, for each of four particularly well-studied domains: the acquisition of (1) determiners, (2) inflectional morphology (3) basic word order, and (4) more ...
28 sty 2022 · A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world’s 7000 or so languages.
Within the first few years of life, typically developing children can understand and produce full sentences in their native language or languages. For centuries, philosophers, psychologists, and linguists have debated how we acquire language with such ease and speed.
