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Language Acquisition - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Vygotsky
        
        Lev Vygotsky is a seminal Russian psychologist and he is best known for his sociocultural theory. He believed that social interaction plays a critical role in children's learning.
      - Language Acquisition Theories
        
        Behaviorist
        
        Innatist
        
        Interactionist
        
        Emphasizing the role of social interaction between the developing child and linguistically knowledgeable adult.
        
        Elements of Language
        
        Phonology
        
        Morphology
        
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        The study of the sound patterns that occur within language. When children learn to talk, understanding the sound patterns is critical and principles of phonology can also be applied to treatments of speech pathologies.
        
        The innatist theory is mainly concerned with the first language acquisition and it states that human have access to the knowledge that is processed innately.
        
        Focuses on the idea that all behaviors are learned through interaction with the environment and that innate or inherited factors have little influence on behavior.
      - Chomsky is best known for his influence on linguistics, specifically, the development of transformational grammar. He believed that formal grammar was directly responsible for a person's ability to understand and interpret mere utterances.(Innatist theory)