challenging interactionism

Chomsky

takes issue with Bruner’s work, published a paper in 1959 criticising the flaws in is work

he questions how children produce utterances that are grammatically non-standard to the point where no caregiver would have said them - errors often happen that are not present in the template

Myzor

believes that CDS helps to aid social development but doesn’t help linguistic development e.g. it may teach children turn-taking in conversation but not aid their ability to use correct forms

De Villiers and De Villiers

state that it is rare for caregivers to give direct feedback about the correctness of their language, so there must be something more innate

Cliff Pye

researched how different cultures learn language. his research detailed that children around the world acquired language at roughly the same time and that not all cultures used CDS e.g. Samoan families don’t speak to the children until they are around 18 months which implied that language acquisition may be more innate