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{Therefore, although parents may assist the child's language development in some ways and influence the rate of development somewhat, the pattern of development is based not on parental speech but on innate language knowledge.}

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{associative chain theory, which states that a sentence consists of a chain of associations between individual words in a sentence. Put another way, each word in a sentence serves as a stimulus for the next word, and thus the entire sentence is produced left to right (at least for European languages)}

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{Roger Brown, complained that a “psycholinguist” sounded more like a deranged polyglot than a psychologist interested in language (Brown,
1958), but the name stuck.}

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