5.4

Language

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Structure of language

Language development

Important language phenomena

Theories of language acquisition

Chomsky — nativist approach

Skinner — behaviorist approach

Interactionist approach

Critical period for language

Language and thought

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (linguistic determinism)

Thinking without language

Language in animals

Bilingualism

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