Categories: All - production - stages - perception

by Caroline McWhorter 5 years ago

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Language-Acquisition

Language acquisition is an intrinsic human ability, enabling us to communicate thoughts and ideas naturally. This process involves several key stages, beginning with babbling in infants around 5-9 months, progressing through one-word and early multi-word stages, and continuing to more complex structures.

Language-Acquisition

Language-Acquisition

Language Acquisition Stages

late mutiword
early mutiword
two word
one word
Babbling

Age:5-9 Months

Typical Patterns:Constant-Vowel patterns: ma ma ma,da da da , ba ba ba,etc


Age: 9-18 months

typical patterns

Main topic

First language acquisition refers to the way humans learn their native language. Second language acquisition refers to the learning of another language or languages besides the native language.

Definition

Subtopthe process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Language acquisition involves structures, rules and representation.

Universal-Grammar

theory proposing that humans possess innate faculties related to the acquisition of language

Language Acquisition Innateness

The ability to communicate is natural to the human,we are born with the knowledge of getting there thoughts across to someone. That is how its been for all of human existence.