What Is the Interactionist's Stance on Language Development

question 119

Multiple Choice

What is the interactionist's stance on language development?

• A)Language development is motivated by the need to communicate with others.
• B)The information needed to acquire language is contained in the language itself.
• C)Language is too complex to come only from experience, so there must be innate structures that enable humans to acquire language.
• D)Language comes solely from the gradual strengthening of connections in the neural network.

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Definitions:

Kitchen Debate

A series of impromptu exchanges between U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, symbolizing the ideological competition between the U.S. and the USSR during the Cold War.

Nikita Khrushchev

A Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.

Segregated

The enforced separation of different racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic groups within society, often resulting in discrimination or inequality.