Lesson 1 of 4 · 45 min

How humans acquire language

Explain why language acquisition is not just imitation by using evidence from children’s rule formation, developmental stages, and early overgeneralization.

Lesson explanation

How Humans Acquire Language Language acquisition is not just imitation. Evidence from children’s speech shows that they actively build grammatical rules for themselves. As 2-The-human-capacity-for-language-33 (1) explains, children “formulate their own version...

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