language development is influenced by the society in which the individual lives: "higher mental functions are socially formed and culturally transmitted" (Vygolsky, 1978,
I completely agree with Vygotsky, that society influences our language and language development. People all over the United States have different accents and can all be saying the same word and it sound a little different from everyone else.
Children's development of phonologi-cal knowledge is foslered by their perceptual ability to distinguish sounds and also by the ways in which language is used around them
I feel like accents and baby talk come into play with this. I know sometimes if kids are baby talked to then they grow into speech problems. And accents can affect how a child may say certain things.
I feel like accents come into play with this along with baby talk as a kid. Sometimes the way kids think/hear/say depend on how they have heard it growing up.