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  • Theories & Concepts of Child Language Aquisition

    Theories & Concepts of Child Language Aquisition

    This PDF discusses five important theories/concepts related to child language acquisition and how to apply them to an analysis. The theories/concepts are: behaviorism, nativism, the language acquisition support system, cognitive development theory, and functional theory.

  • Theories of Language Change

    Theories of Language Change

    This resource discusses eight important theories and concepts related to language change: semiotics theory, functional theory, substratum theory, the s-curve model, prescriptivism, descriptivism, theory of lexical gaps, and random fluctuation theory.