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| Child Language | 1 |
| Cognitive Processes | 1 |
| Infant Behavior | 1 |
| Language Acquisition | 1 |
| Learning Theories | 1 |
| Linguistics | 1 |
| Semantics | 1 |
| Verbal Learning | 1 |
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| Child Study Journal | 1 |
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| Moerk, Ernst L. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedMoerk, Ernst L. – Child Study Journal, 1973
The antecedents of verbal behavior, together with the teaching skills of the adult linguistic community, probably constitute all the necessary bases for language acquisition. As they seemed to be sufficient for the explanation of all the known phenomena, an assumption of an innate linguistic language acquisition device was rejected as superfluous.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition
