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Chomsky:

Chomsky believes that we are all 'hardwired' to learn language,  as children use grammatical and linguistic structures that would not be learned through imitation alone. He believes that each child had an LAD or a language acquisition device, which allows them to posses the knowledge of sentence structure and linguistic devices. the idea of over generalization may back this up, this shows that children have the knowledge of affixes and tenses but use them in the wrong way, for example "Child: Me drawed a cat." could not have been learned from parents or caregivers and shows the child understands the grammatical rule but has applied it to the wrong setting. For example this sentence "Child: When Daddy coming home?" is ordered correctly (in terms of the subject verb and object) which shows that a child may have this innate device, as parents may not always speak with the correct grammar, yet the child will always say things in the correct way.

quotes taken from: http://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/chomsky/

Skinner:

He believed that language was learnt by imitation, by conducting experiments on rats and pigeons he stated that language was just a learnt behaviour and that children picked up language from there environment rather than possessing it a birth. When a child speaks to their parent they pick up words from their sentences and repeat them, "that's disgusting" "gusting" the child repeats what the caregiver says, he believes all language is learnt this way.
He also believed that language was learn by positive and negative reinforcement, he conducted experiments showing how positive and negative reinforcements, the skinner box, he said that if a child were to say something and it was incorrect the parent would correct them, and the child might repeat which would end with the parent confirming this was right which would then result in the child using the correct word next time.


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