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Sep 7, 2023 · Language Acquisition in psychology refers to the process by which humans acquire the ability to perceive, produce, and use words to understand and communicate. This innate capacity typically develops in early childhood and involves complex interplay of genetic, cognitive, and social factors.
There is evidence that this integration permeates the learning and development of all aspects of language—from sounds (phonology), to the meanings of words (lexical-semantics), to the forms of words and the structure of sentences (morphosyntax).
Oct 23, 2018 · One of the best-known claims from language acquisition research is that the capacity to learn languages is constrained by maturational changes, with particular time windows (aka ‘critical’ or ‘sensitive’ periods) better suited for language learning than others.
- Jubin Abutalebi, Harald Clahsen
- 2018
In order to speak a language as adults do, children need to have acquired five areas of linguistic competence: Phonology, Lexis, Semantics, Grammar and Pragmatics. Phonology. Phonological development is the acquisition of sounds in order to pronounce words. Child Language Acquisition begins at birth.
Jun 29, 2015 · Literacy development and language acquisition are processes that are studied within several overlapping fields: education, special education, educational psychology, communication disorders, and, more broadly, psychology.
In this chapter, we describe the constructs and working assumptions that characterize such approaches to language learning, with a particular focus on their cognitive underpinnings and how these explain differences between the linguistic forms that distinguish L1 and L2 speakers.
The chapter addresses these questions on the basis of extensive empirical findings and discusses their implications for our understanding of age-related/maturational, bilingualism-related/cross-linguistic, and aptitude-related determinants of language acquisition, and their complex interrelations.
