-When do we start learning language?
-What are some features of child language?
Humans are developing their understanding of language
everyday by the age of 5 a child knows around 5000 words, and a further 2000
words each year afterwards. But when do we start learning these words?
Scientists have been conducting experiments on newborn
babies by monitoring the activity of the baby’s brain when it is exposed to
words spoken by a computer, their mother and a stranger. This experiment showed
that the baby responded only to their mother’s voice, this proved that the baby
had been learning to speak while in the womb.
When a child is born it is constantly learning the vital
skills of speech, they start out by making simple sounds trying to imitate the
words of the parents. An example of this is the child trying to learn the word
water. The child attempts to say water and says gaga, then the child begins to
make to word sound more and more like water such as, waga, wawa, wadder, and
then finally the child would pronounce the word water.
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