Maturationists
◦ support the idea that children acquire language through stimulus-response relationships.
◦ suggest that language acquisition combines an innate ability with environmental influences, interacting in complex ways as children learn language.
◦ support the idea that children develop language only through their interactions with other people.
◦ suggest that every child, regardless of culture, intellectual ability, or socioeconomic status, inherits the genetic capability for language.
