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    The document discusses two approaches to first language acquisition: the behaviorist approach, which focuses on observable responses to stimuli and how reinforcement shapes habitual behaviors, and the nativist approach, which asserts that humans are born with an innate, genetic capacity for language that allows them to systematically perceive and internalize the language structures around them through hypothesis testing as their language develops in systematic ways at each stage.

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    The document discusses two approaches to first language acquisition: the behaviorist approach, which focuses on observable responses to stimuli and how reinforcement shapes habitual behaviors, and the nativist approach, which asserts that humans are born with an innate, genetic capacity for language that allows them to systematically perceive and internalize the language structures around them through hypothesis testing as their language develops in systematic ways at each stage.

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    The document discusses two approaches to first language acquisition: the behaviorist approach, which focuses on observable responses to stimuli and how reinforcement shapes habitual behaviors, and the nativist approach, which asserts that humans are born with an innate, genetic capacity for language that allows them to systematically perceive and internalize the language structures around them through hypothesis testing as their language develops in systematic ways at each stage.

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    The document discusses two approaches to first language acquisition: the behaviorist approach, which focuses on observable responses to stimuli and how reinforcement shapes habitual behaviors, and the nativist approach, which asserts that humans are born with an innate, genetic capacity for language that allows them to systematically perceive and internalize the language structures around them through hypothesis testing as their language develops in systematic ways at each stage.

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    First Language Acquisition

    Behavioristic Approaches
    • Focuses on the immediatey perceptible
    aspect of linguistic behavior - the publicly
    observable responses – and the
    relationships or associations between
    those responses and events in the world
    surrounding them.
    • A behaviorist might consider effective
    language behavior to be the production of
    correct responses to stimuli.
    • If a particular responses is reinforced, it
    then become habitual.
    • Skinner theory of verbal behavior was an
    extension of his general theory (operant
    conditioning)
    • When consequences are rewarding,
    behavior is maintain.
    Nativist Approach
    • The term nativist is derived from the
    fundamental assertion that language
    acquisiton is innately determined, what we
    are born with a genetic capacity that
    predisposes us to a systematic perception
    of language around us, resulting in the
    construction of an internalized system of
    language
    • Child language, at any given point, is
    legitimate system in its own right. The
    child’s linguistic development is not a
    process of developing fewer and fewer
    “incorrect” structures.
    • The child’s language at any stage is
    systematic in that the child is constantly
    forming hypotheses on the basis of the
    input received and then testing the
    hypotheses in speech.

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