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LANGUAGE THEORY (Vigotsky (Social interactionist theory) (beginner speaker…

- - - - for example, children learning parents language and get rewarded and skillful
      - this shapes language more than rules (gleason and ratner 2009)
    - - skinner have not taken into account various influences on a child's language learning
      - while people believe language rich environments shapes language, this has not been proven
- - - - chomskian beliefis idea of universal grammer, which posits that all languages have same underlying structure and that specific languages have rules that transform these structures into specific patterns found in given language.
      - without the propensity for language, human infants would be unable to learn such complete speech patterns in a natural environment where complete sentences are the exception
    - - researchers shown parents react differently to children's grammatical nuances, therefore shaping behaviour and therefore challenges the belief that language is innate