LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT – CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Language development is the crucial part of the human cognitive nature,<br>understanding language development is important aspect to understand the base and to<br>recall its various components of linguistics. Language development is a process starting<br>early in human life, when a person begins to acquire language by learning it as it is<br>spoken and by mimicry. Scholars share the conviction that key aspects of personality and<br>ability including linguistic and communication ability, are formulated in the earliest<br>stages of life. But they are divided on the role of human intuition on one hand and<br>heredity or environment has in childhood development of knowledge, aptitude and skill.<br>Equally they are divided on how skills emerge and develop. A number of different<br>theories have been advanced that are meant to explain language acquisition. This paper<br>therefore examines the acquisition and theories based on the language development.