Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics grade: 13 University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar) course: HS First Language Acquisition language: English abstract: Most of the concepts and theories explaining how native languages are acquired go back to three different approaches put forward by Burrhus Federic Skinner Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget either by using their ideas as a starting point or by rejecting them and formulating a new or