- Author: [[Patsy M. Lightbown, Nina Spada]] - Full Title: How Languages Are Learned - Tags:: books [[inbox]] -  - ### Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[2020-09-03]] - although behaviourism goes some way to explaining the sorts of overgeneralization that children make, classical behaviourism is not a satisfactory explanation for the acquisition of the more complex grammar that children acquire. ([Location 593](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BHHIYBC&location=593)) - The innatist perspective is related to Chomsky’s hypothesis that all human languages are based on some innate universal principles. ([Location 598](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BHHIYBC&location=598)) - He argued that children are biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in just the same way that other biological functions develop. ([Location 600](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BHHIYBC&location=600)) - The innatist perspective is thus partly based on evidence that there is a critical period for language acquisition. It is also seen as an explanation for ‘the logical problem of language acquisition’, that is, the question of how adult speakers come to know the complex structure of their first language on the basis of the limited samples of language to which they are exposed. ([Location 699](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BHHIYBC&location=699)) - The use of both languages within a bilingual context is not evidence of a lack of proficiency. ([Location 847](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BHHIYBC&location=847)) - The research evidence suggests that a better approach is to strive for additive bilingualism—the maintenance of the home language while the second language is being learned. ([Location 883](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00BHHIYBC&location=883))