19.411, Disc: A Question on Language Acquisition

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Subject: 19.411, Disc: A Question on Language Acquisition

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Date: 04-Jan-2008
From: Tony Deng < tonydengcs at hotmail.com >
Subject: A Question on Language Acquisition

 

	
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Why is it that behavioristic theories can account sufficiently well for the
earliest utterances of the child, but not for utterances at the sentence
and discourse level? Do nativistic and functional approaches provide the
necessary tools for accounting for those later, more complex utterances? 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition





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