We begin with Noam Chomsky’s review of B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior, which revealed the limits of the behaviorist approach. Next I introduce Chomsky’s idea of a Language Acquisition Device that enables humans to learn language almost automatically
Noam Chomsky is one of the most polarizing figures in the field of linguistics and psychology. He exploded into stardom in the intellectual world in the 1960's when he wrote a critique to the great BF Skinner's book on language acquisition, Verbal
Comparison of language acquisition of Chomsky and Skinner Language acquisition is one of the moot points of psychology. Different theories of how this process happens have been offered. In the last half of the 20th century, polemics on the language origin
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