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Select and critically examine any one perspective that successfully explains the development of language.
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Select and critically examine any one perspective that successfully explains the development of language. In this essay I am going to discuss the social learning approach to language development in psychology. I will also look at an apposing view and criticisms to this theory. I will start by looking at what language is and examine the social learning theory to language development looking in detail at Skinner B.F.'s theory and experiments in this area. After this I will look at the criticisms of Skinners theory especially Chomsky's criticisms and differences. Language is seen to be one aspect that separates humans from non-humans for example wild chimpanzees use over 30 different vocalizations to convey a large number of meanings and repeat sounds to intensify their meaning. However, they don't string these sounds together to make new 'words'. According to Brown (1965) language is a set of arbitrary symbols " Which, taken together, make it...
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