Linguistics

Jean Piaget

Cognitive Approach

Vygotsky

Constructivism - ZPD

     Ferdinand de Saussure

Structuralism and Post-Structuralism

Human beings are born with an innate capacity (language faculty) to learn languages.

LAD

"Yet we know that creatures are capable of

communicating, certainly with other members of their own species.

 Is it possible that a creature could learn to communicate with humans using language?

Or

does human language have properties that make it so unique that it is quite unlike any other communication system and hence unlearnable by any other creature?"