_____ believed that children learn language by receiving adequate parental attention.

A) Jean Piaget
B) B.F.Skinner
C) Noam Chomsky
D) Lev Vygotsky

B.F. Skinner believed in behaviorism and the idea that language is acquired through operant conditioning, where correct utterances are reinforced by external rewards. He argued that children acquire language through imitation, reinforcement, and shaping. He did not believe that parental attention was necessary for language acquisition.