GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Question
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Chomsky’s innate/universal grammar theory
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Skinner’s imitation theory
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Bruner’s interaction theory
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Piaget’s cognitive development theory
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Detailed explanation-1: -The WUG test is an instrument developed to allow the investigation of how the plural and other inflectional morphemes are acquired in a certain language. While at first just applicable to English, the test has been modified to fit certain languages.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Universal Grammar (UG) hypothesis-the idea that human languages, as superficially diverse as they are, share some fundamental similarities, and that these are attributable to innate principles unique to language: that deep down, there is only one human language (Chomsky, 2000a, p.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chomsky’s theory Chomsky argued that the human brain contains a limited set of constraints for organizing language. This implies in turn that all languages have a common structural basis: the set of rules known as “universal grammar".