How
do humans learn language?
- When do we start learning language?
- What are some features of child language?
Human language is a skill that we
as humans learn over time. We start learning language from the day we are born.
Children learn from the people around them and people that are speaking to them
and from that children just gain the skill to communicate with others, and then
we start learning language in schools with English classes looking at grammar
and vocabulary. The first signs of language from a baby are crying, after a
while once there a bit older it moves onto vowel sounds like ahh, ee, and ohh. Parents
and other adults around the child are a major part in teaching the child
language just by talking to them, children that are never spoken to will not
acquire language.
We also use our senses to
understand and use language it starts from a young age from when are parents
are talking to and trying to get us to speak till when we are older speaking
our own words, even body language contributes in language which is another way
children can pick up language so easily by watching the movements and hand
gesture someone is making while talking.
Regularly, language starts off as a memory of
simple words without a related meaning, but as children grow, words gain
meaning, with connections between words being formed. As a person gets older,
new meanings and new relations are created and vocabulary increases as more
words are learned.
Some say that it’s so easy for a young child
to learn to speak because their brains are already programmed to learn
language, and when a baby is born he or she already automatically know a lot
about language, language is like walking, walking is a genetic and children
develop the skill to walk whether or not they are taught by someone in the same
way children develop the ability to talk without be sat down and taught they
can just listen to what everyone else is saying. For this reason many linguist
say that the ability to speak language is genetic.
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