CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION FOCUSING ON BILINGUALISM

Abstract

Language acquisition is an amazing process which had always intrigued everyone Children at a very young age have been able to learn words and then turn them into meaningful sentences Linguists of course have been fascinated by this extraordinary feat of a child to have acquired such complex structures of a language To explain child language acquisition three theories have emerged They are the behaviourist theory the innatist or cognitivist here -on - after will be referred to as the innatist theory and the interactionist theory Out of these three theories the innatist theory is the most widely supported and is the most logical in explaining the acquisition of the complexity of a language This research therefore aims to determine if the language acquisition process of a bilingual child corresponds with the innatist theories of child language acquisition ChildLanguage Acquisition Focusing On Bilingualism Strictly as per the complia nce and regulations of The research questions that this study will attempt to answer are I Is the language acquisition process of a child universal II Is child language acquisition innate