What is Language Development?

language development

focuses on children and is not formally taught

it happens spontaneously from wherever exposed to as a child

first language acquisition

speakers who learned a language very early in life

also known as native speakers

second language acquisition

speakers who learned a language at a later stage in life

also known as non-native speakers

accent

what is clear in the speech of someone who learned a language later in life?

language-specific

intuitions of telling whether a person has first or second language acquisition is not what? meaning, even though we are not native speakers of a language, we can still tell if someone is a native speaker or not

over 7000

about how many languages are there in the world?

automatic

language acquisition is _____ : it occurs at the same age and time across all human populations

socially-situated

language acquisition is _______ ________: meaning we cannot acquire a language without being exposed to one