If an infant is babbling and accidentally babbles something that sounds like a real word, the child's parents show interest and encouragement. that encouragement reinforces the child's "accidental word," leading to further attempts to form such words. this example demonstrates which of the following views of language development?

Behaviorist.

Explanation:

The language development starts at an infants when they listen different sounds and different facial expression. The language development depends on the interaction of child with its surrounding people.

The babbling of infant sometimes sound like a real world. These words allows the language development in the child. The babbling represents the behaviorist type of the language development as here the child learn the language by reinforcement.

Thus, the answer is behaviorist.