Chomsky’s Language Development Theories: Rescuing Parents out of Dilemma

Drugs—The Parents' Dilemma

Investigating the Cognitive Theories of Career Development

Objective: There are several theories proposed on the career development and researchers have classified these theories in different categories. Career-related cognitive theory is one of the latest categories including two theories: social cognitive theory of career development and cognitive information processing. The current study seeks to compare these two cognitive theories of career develo...

Individual Differences and Their Implications for Theories of Language Development

Theories of language Jan

Since Antiquity, a central concern of theories of language has been the question whether language is predominantly a matter of “nature” or of “nurture.” One version of this dilemma is whether language is primarily a socio-cultural reality or a biological phenomenon. British Empiricism and German Romantic ideas, interacting in complicated ways, set the stage for much of 19th century linguistic t...

Theories of language acquisition.

Prior to the advent of generative grammar, theoretical approaches to language development relied heavily upon the concepts ofdifferential reinforcement andimitation. Current studies of linguistic acquisition are largely dominated by the hypothesis that the child constructs his language on the basis of a primitive grammar which gradually evolves into a more complex grammar. This approach presupp...