After reading this article you will learn about the role of Language Acquisition Device (LAD) in children’s language learning process. Chomsky, the leading language scholar is of the view that in every human individual there is an innate Language Acquisition Device that processes, shapes and enables children to acquire the basic and fundamentals of speaking and indicated relationships among the [...]
An interesting and persistent controversy in the study of language behaviour has been the relationship between thought and speech. The issue involved here may be stated as follows: Is it possible to think without acquiring language? Are thought processes possible without words and other forms of verbal elements? Is it that all our thought processes are dependent on acquisition of [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the stages in the process of the development of language behaviour in the child. The neonate does not speak or communicate unless one assumes that the birth cry is the first form of communication. Gradually, the process of communication starts with the child's parents trying to stimulate responses to sounds of the [...]
