Human and animals share an important number of characteristics, but only human are capable of developing a feature which allows them to produce speech. This capability is the main center of attention to Noam Chomsky and Leonard Bloomfield, both linguists have a completely different point of view. Nevertheless, they agree that language can be developed from childhood so the linguists generated some theoretical assumptions in order to understand how human achieves language acquisition.
Chomsky hypothesis establishes that humans develop language on account of an inborn faculty which he denominated Language Acquisition Device (L.A.D.) This language faculty it is based on a set of common grammatical rules expanded into a Universal Grammar which …show more content…
Every native speaker is capable of understanding and producing new sentences since this feature is approachable to anyone, it demonstrates that language cannot just be learned by imitation but the principles of abstraction that are innate. Here is what Chomsky referred as Plato's Problem, demonstrating the gap between knowledge and experience. Plato's Problem is originated on illiterate boy could understand geometric principles, is most clearly illustrated in the Meno dialogue, in which Socrates demonstrated that only by the recollection of facts the boy …show more content…
The basic notion of behaviorism involves two things, a stimulus by an external factor and a reaction as response “Every member of the social group must upon suitable occasion utter the proper speech-sound and, when he hears another utter these speech-sounds, must make the proper response” (Bloomfield, 1933: 29). Moreover, when children born, they get involved in a society who interacts with them producing a stimulus which allows them to get immersed in a learning process. Regarding Bloomfield (1933) the act of speech needs practical preceding and following factors (p.23). The background or preceding information allows to understand the stimuli, so then a speech-event can be produced from the source of the linguist's data, followed by the transmission of the sound to a hearer’s producing a reaction. The speaker, as well as the hearer, is able to produce a practical event or linguistic substitute, the term substitute is a reference to the learned nature of the speakers and listeners reactions that involve language.
From Bloomfield perspective’s, children approach language by repetition through habits and stimulus. Indeed, every kid who born in a community in their first years of life is capable of learning the language. “Language
Chomsky hypothesis establishes that humans develop language on account of an inborn faculty which he denominated Language Acquisition Device (L.A.D.) This language faculty it is based on a set of common grammatical rules expanded into a Universal Grammar which …show more content…
Every native speaker is capable of understanding and producing new sentences since this feature is approachable to anyone, it demonstrates that language cannot just be learned by imitation but the principles of abstraction that are innate. Here is what Chomsky referred as Plato's Problem, demonstrating the gap between knowledge and experience. Plato's Problem is originated on illiterate boy could understand geometric principles, is most clearly illustrated in the Meno dialogue, in which Socrates demonstrated that only by the recollection of facts the boy …show more content…
The basic notion of behaviorism involves two things, a stimulus by an external factor and a reaction as response “Every member of the social group must upon suitable occasion utter the proper speech-sound and, when he hears another utter these speech-sounds, must make the proper response” (Bloomfield, 1933: 29). Moreover, when children born, they get involved in a society who interacts with them producing a stimulus which allows them to get immersed in a learning process. Regarding Bloomfield (1933) the act of speech needs practical preceding and following factors (p.23). The background or preceding information allows to understand the stimuli, so then a speech-event can be produced from the source of the linguist's data, followed by the transmission of the sound to a hearer’s producing a reaction. The speaker, as well as the hearer, is able to produce a practical event or linguistic substitute, the term substitute is a reference to the learned nature of the speakers and listeners reactions that involve language.
From Bloomfield perspective’s, children approach language by repetition through habits and stimulus. Indeed, every kid who born in a community in their first years of life is capable of learning the language. “Language