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How Our Children Use Language: A Case Study |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE |
| Author: Anne Gardner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 3,355 Words, 20,885 Characters |
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Language acquisition is sudden, not incremental, and toddlers who can barely vocalize on one day speak complete sentences the next. Although a child may repeat sounds, words, and even phrases, the child does not have the capacity to use and control the language until the system is grasped. A child who has acquired the grammar, or system, of a language, will be able to say things he has never heard said.
When people have a common grammar, or language system, they can understand each other. Minor variations in grammar are common and are referred to as dialects. Essentially, all speakers use dialect. What we normally call the grammar of the language is ideal, a well-ordered model of how the language should be, and not necessarily how it is. This model is the standard language, and it is us...
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... of their language, the limitations of the grammar of Standard English, and the limitations of their experience. They have struggled with the idea of extending an idea beyond their own experience and into the realm of the universal, and making the relationship of the personal and the universal clear. They have not always succeeded, but they have tried, and in trying they have been successful.
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