Clapping your hands and praising a child when he/she utters a sound will encourage the child to utter more sounds and eventually acquire language. This best captures whose view of language development?

a. Skinner
b. Neisser
c. Chomsky
d. Fodor


a. Skinner

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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