Thinking — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Both nature and nurture are important in language acquisition.B.F. Skinner- According to B.F. Skinner, a behaviorist we learn language the same way as animals learn to pick keys or press bars. Language development follows learning behavior.
Noam Chomsky view- He is a linguist; put forth the innate proposition of development of language. For him the rate of which children acquire words and grammar without being taught cannot be explained only by learning principles.
Skinner’s emphasis on learning explains infants acquire the language they hear and how they add new words to their vocabularies. Chomsky’s emphasis on our built in readiness to learn grammar helps explain why children acquire language so readily without direct teaching.