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Md. Mostafa Rashel:
First Language Acquisition Theories : Linguistic/Innatist Theory


Theoretician(s)
•   Psammetichus
•   Lenneberg(critical period hypothesis)
•   Chomsky
•   Goldin-Meadow (deaf children's developing language)
•   Bickerton (pidgin--creaole)
•   Lightfoot


Hypothesis:
Many aspects of language development are preprogrammed in the individual and a child does not require explicit teaching or experience in order to acquire language. (Not "a" language)
•   Language is autonomous (Modular)
•   There is Universal Principles (UG) which any natural human language obeys.
•   LAD

Evidence for the hypothesis
•   Studies with deaf
•   Pidgin -- > creole studies
•   deficiency of input (Lightfoot)
•   Negative evidence and correction

REFERENCES
Gleason and Ratner (1998). Psycholinguistics. Second Edition. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace Collage Publishers.
Keenan and Comrie (1977). "Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar." Linguistic inquiry.8 (1), 63-99.

Antara11:
Truly very informative.

Tahsina:
It was good to get the theories in a nutshell. But for people like us (without the linguistics background) I think a few easy examples could work wonders.  :)

Afroza Akhter Tina:
Informative indeed!!





Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

Subrata.eng:
I do agree with Tahsina ma'am.

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