Maternal responsivity predicts language development in young children with fragile X syndrome

Steven F Warren1, Nancy Brady, Audra Sterling

  • 1Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2930, USA. sfwarren@ku.edu

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Language Development

Children master language quickly and with relative ease, supported by both biological predisposition and reinforcement. B. F. Skinner (1957) proposed that language is learned through reinforcement, while Noam Chomsky (1965) argued that language acquisition mechanisms are biologically determined.
The critical period for language acquisition suggests that the ability to acquire language is at its peak early in life. As people age, this proficiency decreases. Language development begins very...