Language development

Question 1

How does infant speech perception develop?

Answer 1

Infant speech perception functionally engages the frontal-motor areas, and is supported by a combinatorial neural code that represents phonetic features along articulatory dimensions

Question 2

What is the Nativist theory of language acquisition?

Answer 2

A hypothesis that the capacity for language is natural or inherited.

Question 3

What is the Interactionist theory of language acquisition?

Answer 3

Believes that language exists for the purpose of communication and can only be learned in the context of interaction with adults and other children. Individuals learn to speak by observing and interacting with others.

Question 4

What is the Language Acquisition Device and Language Acquisition
Support System?

Answer 4

The Language Aquisition Device is the belief that language is learned when children’s verbal operants are brought under the control of environmental conditions as a result of training by their caregivers. The Language Acquisition
Support System is a concept that describes how adults and older children help young learners to develop their language and communication skills.