LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT – CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Language development is the crucial part of the human cognitive nature,understanding language development is important aspect to understand the base and torecall its various components of linguistics. Language development is a process startingearly in human life, when a person begins to acquire language by learning it as it isspoken and by mimicry. Scholars share the conviction that key aspects of personality andability including linguistic and communication ability, are formulated in the earlieststages of life. But they are divided on the role of human intuition on one hand andheredity or environment has in childhood development of knowledge, aptitude and skill.Equally they are divided on how skills emerge and develop. A number of differenttheories have been advanced that are meant to explain language acquisition. This papertherefore examines the acquisition and theories based on the language development.