Author Question: Constructivist and Nativist accounts of language development DISAGREE about which of the following: ... (Read 99 times)

HCHenry · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Constructivist and Nativist accounts of language development DISAGREE about which of the following:

A. whether or not a child is born knowing their native language.
B. whether or not a child must receive adequate amounts of input from adults.
C. whether or not a child is born with language-oriented biases that help them use input from adults to learn their native language.
D. the two accounts agree about all the above items.

Question 2

The continuity assumption argues that:

A. children must continually learn from adults in order to learn language.
B. children and adults both have the same kinds of grammatical representations. Differences between adults and children arise from experience-based knowledge and processing limitations of children.
C. children and adults have the different kinds of grammatical representations from each other, and they continue to do so.
D. children are born knowing their native language and they continue to use it throughout their lifespan.