The Child's Language Environment Plays an Important Role in the Process

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Essay

The child's language environment plays an important role in the process of language acquisition. What kinds of input have been shown to be facilitative? What minimal input is believed to be essential for acquisition?

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Definitions:

Marginal Decision Rule

A principle used in economics and decision-making that recommends comparing the additional benefits of a decision or action to its additional costs.

Downward Sloping

Characteristic of a graph indicating that as one variable increases, the other variable decreases, common in demand curves.

Demand

The quantity of a particular good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices.

Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded by consumers at those prices.