How Do Children Learn to Speak?

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Chomsky, English, English Language, Language, Language acquisition, Language Acquisition Device, Linguistics, Noam Chomsky

Social Saturdays’ posts look at the social side of language. After all, language isn’t just a way to communicate, it is communication.

… This is a question which, I’m afraid, I won’t be able to answer. I would love to; however, just like the conundrum of how African American Vernacular English came into being, it’s simply not known.

Many branches of linguistics are new and so there are rarely definitive answers when it comes to pragmatics and conversation analysis, to sociolinguistics, and to child language acquisition.

However, there are theories, and that’s enough to work with.

Beginnings: Your First Words

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Child Language Acquision, Children, Humour, Learning, Sound, Speech, Vowel, Word

Thursday’s posts look at sociolinguistics or child language acquisition: accents, stereotypes and how children learn to speak.

What was your first word?

Was it “mama” or “dada”?

If so, I hate to break it to you, but it probably actually wasn’t.