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First Language Acquisition

The document discusses various aspects of human language development and acquisition in children, including how babies can respond to sounds in the womb, the role of babbling, semantic and grammatical development, and the important role of mothers in modifying their speech and supporting language acquisition without correcting grammar.

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First Language Acquisition

The document discusses various aspects of human language development and acquisition in children, including how babies can respond to sounds in the womb, the role of babbling, semantic and grammatical development, and the important role of mothers in modifying their speech and supporting language acquisition without correcting grammar.

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Human being’s system of communication is said to be highly developed because it has the
qualities of -------( abstraction)
2. The unique and highly developed communication system allows us to plan and communicate
( comlex and intricate ) thoughts to one another.
3. In first language acquisition , children are required to initially ( acquire) the basic rules of the
language.
4. When children have acquired basic rules of the language, they are able to make the sentences
that are ( grammartiically) acceptable.
5. Researchers have provided that the babies can respond to the sounds while they are still in their
mothers’( womb).
6. The babies make their very first sounds to express their feeling of ( comfort) or ( discomfort)
7. Speech sound are more actively processed in the ( left) hemisphere of the brain.
8. ( Babbling) is a form of play in which not only the young baby but also parents experiences
pleasure.
9. ( Reduplication) or the da-da type of the utterance occurs because the babies cannot
appropriately produce the second syllable of the word or final consonant.
10. For young children, language development happens parallel with ( semantic) development
although they are not dependent upon each other.
11. ( overextension) is in which a child uses a single word or overlap meanings of multiple things
instead of using different words for them, for examples, “dog” for any “four-legged’ animals.
12. ( underextension) occurs when a child uses a general word to means one very specific thing for
example, the child uses “kitty’ for its family cats but not for others.
13. The M.L.U ( Mean Length of Utterance) is measured in( morphemes) to know thw development
of language acquisition.
14. (Telegraphic) speech refers to short sentences in which children use the most important content
words to communicate , but not grammatically correct.
15. A child acquires the functions of the first language through the process of ( social interaction).
16. In the children’s first language acquisition, the ( mother’s) role is really important as small
infants spend most of their time with that person.
17. To help a child foster its ability to acquire language, mothers usually seem to instinctively
( modify) their speech.
18. Mothers very rarely corrects the child’s ( grmmar)when they speak the language , but the
pronunciation.
19. It is said that boys do not learn( linguistic) as early as the first language acquisition.

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