Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition


Morphology - change lexis - happening at an unconscious level


Conversation without words

• Sight
• Touch
• Smell
• Hearing
• Taste - primary sense to explore world

NVC - (Non Verbal Communication) as main source of communication






Intonation - sound of words - rhythm, stress


Lip Reading - face to face communication

• 18 months old - learning 10 words a day
• If a person develops language after puberty, he/she will never be able to fully acquire language
• 18 months old - productive vocabulary of 50 words
• A child can understand more than it can speak
• If you expose a baby to 2 languages at the same time, he/she will learn both
• A child says its first recognisable word at around 12 months