Chomsky or Skinner

8/13/2019 Chomsky or Skinner

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Chomsky

OrSkinner?

Aisyah

Aiifa

Darrelene

Nes

Nicole


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Chomskys theorywhich is believed people have a basic pattern of

LEARNING LANGUAGE inside of their brain SINCETHEY WERE BORN

B F Skinnerstheorywhich is believed PEOPLE HAVE TO BE TAUGHT how

to speak by someone for language acquisition


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We mostly agree with Chomsky

theory and partly Skinnertheory


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People speak their language withoutstudying.

It means people already have an ability of

language pattern in their brainPeople usually dont remember how they learned to

speak, but everybody speaks their first language

without any problems. Some Children even speak

more than two languages naturally


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Eg: A two years old kid can already speak.

Of course, that kid has never studied.

So, people must have some kind of

language ability innately.


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Chomsky says human brain contains a languageacquisition device (LAD) which automatically analyzesthe components of speech a child hears.

The human brain has special function, unlikely otheranimals. Thats why only humans speak languages.

Learning language for a human is very easy becausethe human brain already contains ability of language,

so even children start to speak language naturally intheir early age.


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People in young age are very easy to acquire

more than two languages at same time. Even

if those languages are very different, and

their parents dont speak those languages. It

also proves PEOPLE MUST HAVE AN ABILITY

TO FUNCTION IN ANY LANGUAGE INNATELY.


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GENIE


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language got deprived during her critical

period

of learning first language, and she couldnt

acquire her language skill normally even

though she studied

This fact supports B. F. Skinners theory


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Even young children speak language without

learning, but they often make mistakes in

their speech.

While they are growing, their number of

mistakes in their speech decreases.

They are learning how to speak, so in this

case some part of Skinners theory is also

correct.


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learning second language for people in older

age supports Skinners theory.

People have to keep learning language to

improve their second language.

It hardly ever gets perfect because people

have to learn all rules and structures from

beginning which dont apply to their first

language


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If we have learning language system innately,

why cant we easily adjust to speak another

language?

We cant apply Chomskys theory at all in this

case.


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In conclusion, until people reach critical

period of learning language, people learn

their language automatically without being

taught because of their innate ability of

language


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the ability of language has to be activated in

the first place by something.

Otherwise, people never begin to acquire

their language.

Once people past the critical period, it is

hard to learn any language.

Thereby, people in older age usually have

problem learning second language


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Both Chomskys and Skinners theories are

correct in different cases and language

acquisition system works with both of them

together.

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