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What are Skinner's views on language acquisition? - ️️-babies are a blank slate (tabula rasa) -learn from adults teaching them -"trial and error" -kids produce words until they get them right (not accurate) -parents provide corrective feedback (not accurate) behaviorist theory - ️️-nurture -language is like any other human behavior, it does not reflect any special innate endowment -complex behaviors are learned like a chain, where each step stimulates the next operant conditioning - ️️learning is a function of change in overt behavior language learned by conditioning - ️️parents reward or punish the child after they say something language learned by "trial and error" - ️️kids try and say word until they get it correct What are the problems with the idea stemming from Skinner's views, that meaning is learned by an association between an utterance and an object in the world? - ️️(holding stuffed elephant) problem: kids might associate the name of the object with just a part of the object (ex: color or a distraction in the background) What are Chomsky's views on language acquisition? - ️️-humans have module for lang acq -universal grammar features -kids are not systematically reinforced for linguistic