Interesting Articles Linked to Child Language Aquisition PART 1

English; interesting articles Linked to CLA

Child Language Acquisition in a nutshell, is basically the investigation on Child Language as they grow; the linguistic stages they are in (i.e. telegraphic/two word stage) and the linguistic techniques they use as they grow such as adjacency pairs. Different theorists can be applied to different techniques.

For example, B.F Skinner suggests that children use reformulation (repeating what people around them have said or what they usually say). Here are some interesting articles about Child Language Acquisition:

http://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/chomsky/

The main point of the article is that children are born with the ability to speak.

We have a Language Acquisition Device in the brain. This is an innate ability to learn how to talk as part of being a human.