features of language development

Language exists in society; it is a means of nourishing and developing culture and establishing human relations Language is Symbolic: Language consists of 

aspects of language development Her results indicated that: 1 The speech sound production, so clearly incomplete by two and one half years in the Irwin 

Adults often use infant-directed speech when they converse with young children, ad- justing its specific characteristics to the age of the listener (Rondal, 1985)

Halliday's theory about child language development lies in specifying the functions which language has in society and establishing what reflection these functions 

biologically programmed for language and that language develops in the child in just the same way that other biological functions develop, such as learning to 

Biological maturation and language acquisition ▻ b) Linguistic and cognitive development ▻ c) Social aspects of language acquisition 2) Acquisition of 

Language Acquisition 01:615:201 Introduction to Linguistic Theory Also, children learn aspects of language about which they receive no information

There are other aspects of conversational turns that develop in this period In addition to longer and more relevant turns, participants are better able, or appear to 

These features define the characteristics of human speech, but most of the features really are characteristic of human “ language”, not just speech Page 4 2 7 A