Conlusion
“4) The child is the active party in his own learning. He uses the environment for language acquisition. He interacts with people and things in this environment, building hypotheses about language, gathering further data, testing hypotheses, and refining them as he goes. He is an active pattern seeker and user.
5) Simple imitation, practice and reinforcement for linguistic form, although they do occur, cannot account for acquisition of linguistic structure.” (Lindsford, op.cit. 111)