The study of how children and even adults in some cases acquire language proves to be very fascinating.Humans acquire language in a very complicated way that cannot be explained just in a simple manner. Thispape
and seriously questioned and reformed by William Dwight Whitney (1875) and the neogrammarians on whose work Saussure (ibid., p. 5) built his theory. If we take the linguist's word, then, the evolution of the field seems
He considers such linguistic events as irrelevant to a theory of second language acquisition, as they “are adventitious artefacts of linguistic performance and do not reflect a defect in our knowledge of our own language” (Corder, 1967, p. 166). Moreover, he asserts, “the errors of ...
Staats, Arthur W., “Linguistic-Mentalistic Theory versus an Explanatory S-R Learning Theory of Language Development” in Dan I. Slobin, ed.,The Ontogenesis of Language(Academic Press, 1971), p.141. Google Scholar Brown, Roger Brown, and Colin Fraser, “The Acquisition of Syntax”, in C....
What is mentalist theory? The mentalist learning theoryemphasizes the role of the mind in language acquisition by arguing that humans are born with an innate and biological capacity to learn languages. This theory was spearheaded by Noam Chomsky, and arose in response to B. F. Skinner's radical...
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has there been any attempt to meet the criticisms that are raised in the review or to show that they are erroneous or ill-founded. I had intended this review not specifically as a criticism of Skinner’s speculations regarding language, but rather as a more general critique of behaviorist (...
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as high levels of theory-of-mind are necessary for cultivating an online persona that is engaging and efficacious. ‘Healthy’ (non-clinical, personality-level) positive schizotypal traits such as high creativity and imagination, particularly traits that enhance as well as extend mentalistic trait ex...
as high levels of theory-of-mind are necessary for cultivating an online persona that is engaging and efficacious. ‘Healthy’ (non-clinical, personality-level) positive schizotypal traits such as high creativity and imagination, particularly traits that enhance as well as extend mentalistic trait ex...