Nature Vs Nurture Language Acquisition. In our second video on language acquisition, we ask how children are able to acquire language as rapidly and systematically as they do. Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we Schoneberger T.
There is no debate, really—everything was learned in some. The nature vs. nurture debate extends to the topic of language acquisition. Social Interactionist (AKA interactionist, empiricist, emergentism, and/or constructionist).
Nurture on the other hand is those things that are influenced by the environment Nature can be said to be given whereas nurture can be said to be learned.
People supporting this view believe that the human brain is prewired for language acquisition and use.
Language is such a complex topic and often debated, especially whether it has come from nature or nurture. The nature versus nurture debate involves whether human behavior is determined by the environment, either prenatal or during a person's life, or by a person's genes. The idea that language acquisition is an innate ability is called 'nativism'.




