The First Language Acquisition

Describe the various stages of the first language acquisition. In the beginning, I'd like to say that learning a new language can be an interesting hobby as it provides the chance to understand and communicate with a foreign culture and to study literary works. When I know a language, I can speak and be understood by others who know that language.

So we can conclude what the language is. It's a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar…etc. or it's the system of communication used by people of a particular country or a specific area. Another theory says that the language is an invention. For example, the babies invent their own sounds & gestures to express an idea or to show feelings e.g. hunger, pain,

This I remember; and have since observed how I learned to speak. It was not that my elders taught me words ... in any set method; but I ... did myself ... practice the sounds in my memory … And thus by constantly hearing words, as they occurred in various sentences … I thereby gave utterance to my will." (Augustine)

* The First Sounds:

The stages of language acquisition can be divided into prelinguistic and linguistic stages. Most scientists agree that the earliest cries, whimpers, and cooing noises of the newborn cannot be considered early language. Such noises are completely stimulus-controlled; they are the child's involuntary responses to hunger, discomfort, and the desire to be cuddle. The child's first noises are simply responses to stimuli (conditioning). During the earliest period, the noises produced by children in all language communities sound the same. Children who are born deaf also produce these same sounds.

* Babbling:

Babbling is the second stage of language acquisition. It's the stage of language development that follows cooing, which begins + 6 months after birth. During this stage, children begin to imitate the intonation of sentences spoken by adults around

Deaf infants experience this stage of development. They babble and their babbling is not different from the babbling of normal children. This appears in their sign language.

* One -Word Stage: (Holophrastic)

This stage is characterized by one word sentences. Sometime after one year (it varies from child to child and has nothing to do with how intelligent the child is), children begin to use just one word to express the whole idea of a sentence contains more than five words.

After the age of one, children recognize that there is a link between sounds and meaning. During this stage they utter single units such as "milk" or "cat". Therefore, many of these units are used in the sense to name objects and to convey messages that the children aren't able to express at this stage. They may use words in ways that are too limited or too wide. By using a single word children can express complex functions and ideas. For example, the child's word dada could mean 'Where is daddy?' or 'I want daddy,' etc. according to the