Which one of the following pair is least likely to be a correct match ?

Language development is a slow process through which a child learns to communicate through a language in the early childhood period. Child vocabulary starts to grow gradually.

Important Points

Chomsky theory is based on the fact that:-

• all languages contain similar structures and rules.
• children are born with an innate ability to learn the language.

Vygotsky believed that language and thought initially have different roots but they converge during the development process around the age of three.

Piaget believed that thought processes come before language. A child learns to think first then from that though they speak.

Skinner believed that children learn language through operant conditioning. The child receives rewards for using language in functional manner when the child realizes the communicative value of words and phrases. So language is not a stimulus in the environment.

Hence, 'language is a stimulus in the environment- B.F Skinner' is the least correct match.