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Language acquisition

Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

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As a typically human phenomenon

General approaches

Representation in the brain

Vocabulary acquisition

Meaning

Genetic and neurocognitive research

Language diversity

Artificial intelligence

Prelingual deafness

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Language acquisition

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Triples258
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Language acquisition

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related to Further reading · 57
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related to Merge (linguistics)-based theory · 28
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related to As a typically human phenomenon · 20
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related to Sensitive period · 19
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related to Comparative method of crosslinguistic research · 18
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related to External links · 15
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related to General approaches · 12
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related to Empiricism · 11
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related to Genetic and neurocognitive research · 11
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related to Relational frame theory · 9
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Language acquisitionis aprocess by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language0.90text
Language acquisitionis acognitive process that emerges from the interaction of biological pressures and the environment0.90text
Language acquisitionis amore complex process than many have proposed.EmpiricismAlthough Chomsky's theory of a generative grammar has been enormously influential in the field of linguistics since the 1950s0.90text
Language acquisitionis amore complex process than many have proposed0.90text
Language acquisitionis aembodied process that is influenced by a child's overall motor abilities and development0.90text
Chomsky have focused on the hugely complex nature of human grammarsinstance ofNativists0.80text
the finitenessinstance ofNativists0.80text
ambiguity of the input that children receiveinstance ofNativists0.80text
and the relatively limited cognitive abilities of an infantinstance ofNativists0.80text
the human braininstance ofbut may not be applicable to neurological systems0.80text
Bye-bye Mummy or All-gone milkinstance ofA child will use short expressions0.80text
which actually are combinations of individual nounsinstance ofA child will use short expressions0.80text

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