How is language developed in early childhood?
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Please read N. Chomsky.\n\n   It develops through culture between imitation of parents, sounds and language is important to have thinking process in the brain. Language develops with ludic (games), with socialization of the self with other´s and that prodces that language makes the individual someone independent from out the  social context, but at the same time accquires skills to be himself or herself.\n\n   Language is important because of the symbolic approach it has and the relation with meaning and personal feelings. Its been said that girls do develop quicker in language than boys, most of the time is true.
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Language has exsited as long as humans have.  Humans are the only beings who use language in a technical sense.  Yes, animals can communicate, but their communication is instinctive and does not differ between cultures or socioeconomic statuses.  A dog in Africa will have no problem communicating with a dog from China because there is no differentiation in their communication.  It's all predetermined.  What makes human communication different is that we have great plasticity in our development and a great capacity to learn and create new knowledge.  Any human can and does create an infinate number of speech paterns with an infinate number of meanings every day.  All humans have language in the form of speech, even if they are illiterate.  The only cases of humans not developing language are rare and they are the result of extreme abuse and neglect.  Therefore, as long as there have been humans there has been language.  The first language was not developed any sooner or any later than the first existence of humans.
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I started a pre-school type program at 2 years old and wound up being able to write in cursive and read by the time I hit Kindergarten.  \n\nMy son will start Kindergarten at 3 years old.  In Germany, Kindergarten is pre-school, they go from 3 to 6 years old and are separated by age group. \nJust for fun:  When they are 8 they begin learning English, then a couple years later, French.  They should start a program like that in the States.
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For the same reason that many non-English speakers can't pronounce English "r" or short "a" sounds.  When a baby starts to talk (babbling), they make every possible speech sound.  As they grow, their babbling changes to include only sounds in the language(s) that they hear around them.\n\nIn fact, adults usually can't even *hear* sounds that aren't in their repertoire.  For instance, the German city of "Muenchen" has an "oo" sound in the first syllable in English and an "ee" sound in some other languages.  The actual sound in German is about halfway between the two (start saying "oo", hold your lips still and move your tongue as if you were going to say "ee").  People from different linguistic backgrounds *heard* and interpreted the sound in different ways.\n\nWhen a child starts talking, she/he learns further how to use these sounds and put them together.  Until about age 10 to 12, a child can learn a new language perfectly.  After that time, it is virtually impossible for most people.  And one of the *hardest* things to learn is new speech sounds.
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The answer is...both.  I had an anthropology of the mind course and we studied this topic.  Humans have an innate ability to produce language, but will mimic whatever language is used in that particular environment.  \nHowever, if isolated, humans will produce, what is called, a pidgin dialect that still follows the same sort of rules that all other languages follow.  So, there seems to be some sort of mental map for language that is innate.
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Language is a growing entity, each generation tries to put it's own stamp on language. In 1950 if you said you're cool, then they'd say 'put on a jacket' but today young people say cool means ok, acceptable or nice. \nSo I guess what influences language the most is the way fashion changes, new things are invented (in 1950 the net was what you caught fish with!) and the way each generation adapts the langauge to its own needs.
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Language is a vital tool. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas, but it forges friendships, cultural ties, and economic relationships. \n\nThroughout history, many have reflected on the importance of language. For instance, the scholar Benjamin Whorf has noted that language shapes thoughts and emotions, determining one’s perception of reality. John Stuart Mill said that "Language is the light of the mind." \n\nFor the linguist Edward Sapir, language is not only a vehicle for the expression of thoughts, perceptions, sentiments, and values characteristic of a community; it also represents a fundamental expression of social identity. Sapir said: "the mere fact of a common speech serves as a peculiar potent symbol of the social solidarity of those who speak the language." In short, language retention helps maintain feelings of cultural kinship.\n\nLanguage is an expression of identity and cultural heritage.  Everywhere there is a human society, there is human language. All languages are based on a similar plan and complexity of language bears no relation to complexity of the culture.
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1. we shud know our own language 1st then  head for the globle one.\n2.one shud get mature enuff to opt and learn a language he/she wishes to.\n3. children shud be made to learn one language at a time.\n\n\nits better to speak against the topic!
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This is a popular notion, and it has actually been tried. Two artificial languages were created, one called Esperanto, which is still in use, the other called Ro, which has pretty much died out. \nThe problem with creating artificial languages, is that you have to make up a grammar to go with it. \nSwahili, for example, is a 'created' language. It began as a lingua franca - or a pidgin language, used by traders to communicate with Africans. As such, it had a few basic words. Very basic. And no grammar. Over time, that wasn't enough, and as different people used the language, they contributed to it from their own languages. Today, Swahili is a mixture of five basic languages, Bantu, Arabic, English, French and German. Traces of other languages have been absorbed into it as well. But the complicating factor is that as each bit of language was added, the grammar attached to that language was added as well. So how you decline verbs, for example, depends on which language the verb came from originally. Today, Swahili is a rich and complex language, and people who learn it from childhood assimilate these grammatical rules without even thinking about it. Swahili worked because it was used in a limited area. But think what would happen if you tried to make a language that incorporated most of the world's languages? It would be so cumbersome as to be unworkable. And whose languages would be ignored? Whose languages would be most prominent? These are serious cultural issues. \nEsperanto, which was created as a completely artifical language, doesn't evolve well. It has difficulty in including modern concepts. And with no one to monitor it, people in various parts of the globe can add what seem to them to be appropriate words to describe new inventions, new situations, slang terms etc. Look what has happened to English over the past few centuries? People in England, Ireland, Scotland, New York, South Carolina, Australia, India all speak English, but it's very difficult sometimes to understand what they are saying because they use regional accents and regional terminology.\nThe notion of one language may seem Utopian at the moment, but given that television is breaking down geographic barriers around the world, it may become the medium that truly does permit international communication. \nAt least, that's my take on it.
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The universalists think that languages are basically the same. In theory, once you've learnt a mother tongue, you'll be able to learn more languages with the same ease or difficulty, as the case may be. There are those who claim that the processes are totally different. You LEARN a mother language, quite unconsciously. You ACQUIRE a foreign language and the exercise entails huge conscious effort. \n\nTeachers nowadays model their teaching process on mother tongue acquisition, applying what they term communicative approach whereby they endeavour to teach the language not the grammar. In other words, they provide students with a considerable corpus of language constructs, through conversation and other interactive activities, and let the students deduce, unconsciously, the rules governing a particular language.\n\nI personally can speak four foreign languages and I have always felt that no obstacle cannot be overcome if the right approach is applied. When I am learning a language I try to diversify learning channels: books, movies, songs, news, long conversation, etc.
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I don't think there can be a definite answer to this question. Because a language is a continuum, certain people did not start speaking all of a sudden. Ancestors of mankind were trying to communicate using sounds as soon as they were capable of making sounds. Look at the animals, most of them use sounds to communicate. So the first human language was something similar to theirs and evolved in millions of years in different directions.
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Yes, that is why 18 month old babies can be taught to read words. If you try to teach them the alphabet, they cannot get it.  it is too abstract. But if you show them whole words, in large print(4 inches)  they can learn to read. You must show them the word and the object and say it at the same time. like BOTTLE , then show them the bottle and say it. use flash cards with large print, especially red ink. They can READ, I swear to God this is true.\nSoon you show them the card, without the object and remaining silent, and they say the word. try it. You can ahve them reading like champs by the time they are 2 or 3.
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All children can aquire language, they just need to be dropped in the environment where language is spoken.  Children can learn multiple languages if they are in a bilingual environment.\n\nSome speculate, but I disagree, that some languages with a lot of inflected nouns and verbs (Finnish, Hungarian, Russian) take longer to acquire than languages without inflected forms (Chinese) but each child should more or less be fluent by age three in a language.
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Kids Speak A Different Langauge And Dont Understand What Parents Say
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I agree that language changes over the years. However, it doesn't change that fast! \nI think it's ok to use slang when you're among friends or writting to friends. But even among young people, it's sometimes difficult to understand one another as some people have a different ideas as to what a slang word means.\n\nSomeone said that language evolves. Final. But then he went on criticising people who couldn't express themselves to such an extent that their questions couldn't be understood. Well, it's usually linked to poor grammar. I agree that vocabulary changes, but it takes longer for grammar to change. And grammar is the backbone of communication.\n\nPS: that's why, when you study another language, teachers tend to emphasize the importance of grammar whereas vocabulary can be learnt more easily on your own.
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child care development
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Definately, think back to when you were a child, what did your parents provide you to help you learn to talk & understand? YEP the all mighty nursery rhymes.Nursery rhymes, lullabies & music have been passed on from generation to generation because they have elements that are attractive to children who are in the process of learning language. These are valuable teaching tools & all children learn these traits from an early age throuout their lifetime. Music is used as a vehicle to illustrate language development to foster children's language acquisition.