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What Happened When Skinner Declared That "The Verbal Community" Reinforces

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What happened when Skinner declared that "the verbal community" reinforces correct speech and that is how children learn to speak?


A) Linguistic scientists readily agreed.
B) The entire linguistic community rose up against him declaring that "parental training" plays no significant role in language development.
C) Linguist Noam Chomsky rejected Skinner's account of language development in favor of his innate "language faculty."
D) For the first time, linguists began to debate about the degree to which lessons from adults influence language development.

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