Children Produce Various Errors Like Overregularizations That They Would Not

question 88

Multiple Choice

Children produce various errors like overregularizations that they would not have heard from the adults or other models around them. Which of the following theories of language acquisition is WEAKENED by this evidence?

• A)emergentist theory
• B)interactionist theory
• C)behaviourist theory
• D)nativist theory

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