英语语言学课件16FirstLanguageAcquisition.ppt

Chapter 16 First Language Acquisition Basic requirements interact with other language users in order to bring the “language faculty” into operation a particular language-using environment physically capable of sending and receiving sound signals in a language American Sign Language for deaf infants The Acquisition Schedule All normal children ,regardless of culture, develop language at roughly the same time, along much the same schedule. The language acquisition schedule has the same basis as the biologically determined development of motor skills. The biological schedule is tied to the matura