Six month old Will is babbling in his high chair. Whenever he babbles the sound "da-da," his
mother claps her hands and responds, "Will, you said Daddy!" Will's mother is reinforcing him
to repeat the same utterance over and over.
Which type of language theorist would say that
language is shaped through such reinforcement?
a. Nativist
b. Interactionist
c. Behaviorist
d. Linguist
c. Behaviorist
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