Author Question: Lenneberg's position that language is based in biology, not in learning, was based on the ideas that ... (Read 88 times)

maychende · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Lenneberg's position that language is based in biology, not in learning, was based on the ideas that language is all of the following except that

a. it is difficult to prevent.
b. it is species uniform
c. it develops in a regular sequence.
d. it is learned in the way that other abilities are learned.

Question 2

Modern nativist theorists essentially propose that

a. language acquisition grows out of children's social interaction with others.
b. language is based in large part on children's developing social-cognitive abilities.
c. children possess a language instinct.
d. the first word a child raised in vocal isolation utters will be from the world's oldest language.