Acquiring Language I.    Language Development
        A.    What we know children know
        B.    How we know what children know
II.    Theories of Language Development
        A.    Learning Theory
                1.    mand responses
                2.    tact responses
                3.    echoic responses
        B.    Nativist Theory
        C.    Synthesis of Two Theories
III.    What we learn when we learn language
        a.    system of classifying objects
        b.    paralanguage
IV.    Can children be socialized to cultural norms before they acquire language? (Caudill)

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