interactionists

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= Definition: = Theorists who argue that language development is a subprocess of general cognitive development and is influenced by both internal and external factors. HGD Chapter 5, p. 118

= Examples: = Two common threads run through the interactionists' theories: 1. Infants are born with some kind of biological preparedness to pay more attention to language other than to other kinds of information. 2. Rather than having a neurological module that is specific to language, the infant's brain has a generalized set of tools that it employs across all of the subdomains of cognitive development. These tools allow infants to extract general priciples from all kinds of specific experiences, including those that they have with language.

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