Discussion Details
| Title: | A Question on Language Acquisition |
| Submitter: | Tony Deng |
| Description: | Why is it that behavioristic theories can account sufficiently well for the
earliest utterances of the child, but not for utterances at the sentence and discourse level? Do nativistic and functional approaches provide the necessary tools for accounting for those later, more complex utterances? |
| Date Posted: | 04-Feb-2008 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | Language Acquisition |
| LL Issue: | 19.411 |
| Posted: | 04-Feb-2008 |

