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2.Discuss the different theories of child language acquisition with reference to the behaviorist learning model and the nativist biological model. 　　答案： 　　The Behaviorist view : Language acquisition is a process of habit formation . A child s Verbal behavior is conditioned through association between a stimulus and the following response . Children are believed to gradually assume correct forms of the language of their community when their bad speech gets corrected and when their good speech gets positively reinforced . 　　The Nativist view : Language acquisition is a genetically detemined c