- (D) Chomsky and Skinner disagreed about how children acquire language. Skinner’s behaviorist
theory held that children learn language like they learn everything else: through rewards and
punishments. Chomsky pointed out that language acquisition occurs too quickly to be explained by
reward and punishment. Chomsky hypothesized that humans must be born with a language
acquisition device that enables us to learn language quickly during a certain window of opportunity
during childhood.
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