Problems in Framing the Nature/Nurture Question in Child Language Acquisition" A Review  

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Waterhouse, Lynn H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 2 (1986), page 153-168.
Fulltext: 08_02_Waterhouse.pdf (804.89KB)

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The central argument of this review is that the question of nature vs. nurture in child language development cannot be answered by current findings in the field because researchers have depended too heavily on naturally occurring experiments and quasi-ideal experiments, both of which generate inferentially compromised evidence for the questions involved. The paper is concerned with three specific problems: (1) the adequacy of current experimental paradigms; (2) the power of theoretical models; and (3) the adequacy of evaluation methods for weighing the value of research findings. It is argued that the possible covariation of mother and child language skills has not been addressed in the "motherese" research programs. It is also argued that, paradoxically, the putative bioprogram for language acquisition must be both more reffmed and more global than is currently theorized: more refined to account for genetic control of subskills, and more global to account for the integration of language skills in the general flow of cognitive processing. The conclusion of the review posits that "rich interpretation" and argument by analogy should be eschewed in favor of complex behavior genetic study design models (adoption, twin, and family studies) which can do more to resolve controversies about the basis of child language acquisition.

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