According to this theorist, the speech structure mastered by the child become the basic structure of his thinking and the structure of the language he habitually uses influences the way he perceives his environment.
Theories of Language Acquisition

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Dane Narzoles
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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Lev Vygotsky
Jean Piaget
Benjamin Bloom
Noam Chomsky
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He asserted that language development is related to cognitive development. The development of the child's thinking determines when the child can learn to speak and what the child can say.
Ivan Pavlov
Noam Chomsky
BF Skinner
Jean Piaget
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Behaviorists believe that children come into this world with a _____ , a clean slate, bearing no preconceived notions about the world or about language.
blank sheet
tabula
tabula rasa
blank slate
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_____ claims that children are biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in just the same way that other biological functions develop.
Noam Chomsky
Ivan Pavlov
Jean Piaget
Charles Fries
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He emphasized that both positive and negative reinforcement can form behavior, and this subsequently impacts their language acquisition capability, as such, a lack of any reinforcement can also shape behavior.
BF Skinner
Ivan Pavlov
Charles Fries
Leonard Bloomfield
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