IMITATION THEORY
- David Crystal
- Children learn language through copying and imitating others.
- This is how children develop regional accents.
INNATENESS THEORY
- Noam Chomsky
- Language Acquisition Device (LAD) - Special brain mechanism that allows us to learn language.
- All languages share a structure - universal grammar
COGNITION THEORY
- Jean Piaget
- A child must understand a word before they use it.
- If they use a word to describe a feeling, such as "anger", they have to first understand what it is like to have that feeling.
INPUT THEORY
- Similar to behaviourism by B.F. Skinner.
- Child directed Speech is the biggest influence to a child's language development.
- Slow. high pitch, grammatical.
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