How Do Humans Acquire Language?

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Rather, spiders spin spider webs because they have spider brains, which give them the urge to spin and the competence to succeed. Although there are differences between webs and words, [?] it helps to make sense of the phenomena. (5) Pinker also acknowledged that Darwin was the first to articulate language as a kind of ?instinct...
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He suggested that children learned language through observation rather then biological predisposition (Gazzaniga and Heatherton 373). Berry acknowledges Skinner's theory on operant conditioning, which is a behavior that is immediately reinforced (115)...
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