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Cause
: language input from other speakers.
Effect: the
production
of speech.
Language is
learnt
like any other behaviour, through
external
stimuli.
Caregivers reinforce and
‘correct’
children’s utterances, forming the basis for their knowledge of language.
Only humans can acquire language. It is an
independent
system, separate from
cognition.
Children do not automatically pick up
‘correct’
forms from
imitation.
Grammatical structures do not seem to be assimilated by
imitation.
Behaviourism
fails to explain how children are able to produce
structures
they have not
heard
before.
Behaviourism consists of
imitation
, praise and
correction.