STUDY OF CHILDREN’S SPEECH (FROM OLD THEORIES TO MODERN APPROACHES)
Keywords:
Children’s speech, behaviorism, nativism, cognitivism, speech acquisition, ontogenesis, cognitive developmentAbstract
This article analyzes how children acquire their native language. In our article, we have divided psycholinguistic research on children’s speech into three main stages. These include processes ranging from B. Skinner’s theory of “imitation”, N. Chomsky’s “innate ability” and J. Piaget’s “mental ability” to cognitive-pragmatic ideas with the participation of L. Vygotsky, E. Clark and E. Bates, and the analysis of modern research scientists such as M. Perroni, G. Olarte, S. Gammon and J. Rankin. The purpose of our article is to systematically analyze the work of more than 15 scientists in simple and understandable language, as well as to provide some conclusions using the example of the Uzbek language.
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