How is language learned, according to the Behaviorist theory of language acquisition?

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"Language acquisition" refers to the process of learning a language, although
behaviorist ideas of language acquisition specifically seek to understand how people learn their
native language, while only being more generally applicable to foreign language
learning.

Because behaviorists frame language as a behavior, they argue that
the process of language acquisition, for an infant, is similar to the process of learning other
behaviors. Infants mimic the behaviors they see other people model, and correct imitation is
rewarded by other people in their environment, allowing for these successes to...

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