Language Acquisition

- "Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate."

- "The capacity to use language successfully requires one to acquire a range of tools including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary."

- "Human language capacity is represented in the brain."

- "Even though human language capacity is finite, one can say and understand an infinite number of sentences, which is based on a syntactic principle called recursion."

- "These three mechanisms are: relativization, complementation, and coordination."

- "Speech perception always precedes speech production, and the gradually evolving system by which a child learns a language is built up one step at a time."

- "The distinction between individual phonemes is the initial step in language acquisition."

- "Language acquisition usually refers to first-language acquisition, which studies infants' acquisition of their native language, whether that be spoken language or signed language."

- "It refers to an infant's simultaneous acquisition of two native languages."

- "First-language acquisition deals with the acquisition of the native language, while second-language acquisition involves acquiring additional languages."

- "In addition to speech, reading, and writing a language with an entirely different script compounds the complexities of true foreign language literacy."

- "Linguists who are interested in child language acquisition have for many years questioned how language is acquired."

- "The question of how these structures are acquired, then, is more properly understood as the question of how a learner takes the surface forms in the input and converts them into abstract linguistic rules and representations."

- "Language acquisition involves structures, rules, and representation."

- "Language can be vocalized as in speech, or manual as in sign."

- "Language acquisition involves acquiring phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary."

- "Even though human language capacity is finite, one can say and understand an infinite number of sentences."

- "These three mechanisms are: relativization, complementation, and coordination."

- "Speech perception always precedes speech production in first-language acquisition."

- "Language acquisition is one of the quintessential human traits."