Prosodic Feature

Introduction

Acquiring a language is a phenomenal feat only human can do. Whichever the language people learn, they have similar social functions to accomplish. And children are considered to successfully acquire a language of their environment. This essay will discuss some of the interesting topics from the course materials and present some possible modification, as well as related research findings from second language acquisition research.

Looking at Prosodic Feature: Natural Process

The way children process the input from the environment around them was one of the questions that should be answered in my academic interest; therefore, it was interesting for me that children resort to prosodic features of the language when they first distinguish languages of surrounding environment, and the finding was new to me because I didn't know the process children acquire to segment the langauge.

However, when considering the nature of the language and the cognitive processes children go through, the fact will become more understandable. First, as the sound is primary in language and its acquisition, it is natural to consider that the children make use of the sound patterns in acquiring them. As the findings suggested in the textbook show children do not care about the segments of the sound at first,

As native speaker intuitively attend to the prosodic features of the language, suprasegmental features (i.e. rhythms) are more closely related to intelligibility of the non-native speakers utterances. Therefore, research findings between the children's acquisition process and adult native speakers judgment about oral language may have a connection in that it is one of the natures of