DAN SLOBIN
WRITE AN ESSAY CALLED CHILDREN AND LANGUAGE
HE devoted that
all children around world learn the same
The first word comes in the first half of the second year for
just about everyone.
2-By the age of 5 the basic structures of
the language are in place, although fine-tuning goes on until late childhood
3-Children all over the world are sensitive to the same kinds of
language properties, such as word order and inflection. They make
remarkably few errors, but their errors are of a similar type
4-Spanish-speaking children do not use their first
word until they are 3,
5-acquisition of Spanish syntax is not completed
until adolescence.
6-All
children learn regular patterns better than irregular ones,
7-
All children make similar
kinds of “errors” – no matter what language they are acquiring.
8-for children everywhere there seems to be a critical
period in the acquisition of their first language.