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Ling 101 Introduction to Linguistics
Chapter 8: Language Acquisition
I. Some General Ideas
• Human language is unique and species specific.
• Children are not born with a mind that is like a blank slate, but we are prewired to learn language.
• Children do not start with a fully formed grammar or with knowledge of social and communicative intercourse.
• Linguistic competence develops by stages. Observations of children in different language areas of the world reveal that the stages are similar possibly universal.
• Some of the stages last for a short time; others remain longer.
II. Basic Issues:
The two major questions that are basic to the study of first language acquisition are
1) What do children do when they acquire their first language?
: Stages of language development
This is simply a data question: what are the facts about children?s linguistic behavior? This can be answered by careful observation and testing of children at different......

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