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The first two or three year old child needs to interact with other language-user to improve their language.
Child learn language is not genetically inherited but from others language-using environment.

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Skill of language developed at the same time with the physical growth. It keep develop following the
activities like sitting, standing and walking.


 



There are some issues about study of child language. There were a study that show the early environment
of a child will affect the culture. From Noam Chomsky (1983) has proposed that a language development
should be described as ³language growth´, because the ³language organ´ simply grows like any other
body organ. And the other is, the linguist¶s view tends to concentrate on describing the child¶s speech in
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The characteristically simplified speech style adopted by someone who spends a lot of time interacting
with a young child is called caretaker speech.

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ÿery early stages of child language acquisition are simply called µcooing¶ and µbabbling¶. This stage takes
time three months to ten.

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Between twelve and eighteen month children begin to produce a variety of recognizable single unit
utterances. Those single words taken from the daily objects such as milk, cookie, cat, etc.

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A combination between two words, this stage begins around eighteen to twenty month.

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In two and three years old, the children can make their own words variety. They develop the lexical
morphemes in their phrases.


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The acquisition of this form is often accompanied by a process of overgeneralization. The children start
use the inflectional morphemes like adding ±ing, -s to form plural. Example: a
s car, momm
cooking meal.

 

Syntactic structures used by children, it¶s clear that the children understand what the adult is saying. The
formation of question and the use of negative are part of it.

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There are three stages:

1.p First stage : has two procedures, add the ah-form (where,who) to the beginning and rise the
intonation toward the end. Example : ahere oggie?, sit chair?
2.p Second stage : like the first stage but with more complex expression. Example : ou aant sit?,
ahat book name?
3.p Third stage : The required of subject and verb in English question has appeared. Example :
hoa that opene, Can I help ou?

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Some case of negatives:

1.p No or not should be stuck on the beginning of any expression. The example : no sit there, no
te bear.
2.p The additional negative forms on
t and can
t are used. The example : I on
t knoa, I can
t sleep.
3.p ›se the other auxiliary such as in
t and aon
t. The example : I in
t caught it, she aon
t let
go.
4.p The children use their own rule and the correction from the adult.
The example :
Chil : Nobo on
t like me.
Mother : No, sa ³nobo likes me´





-verextension is the process where the children use a word that refer some objects. The most common
pattern is for the child to overextend the meaning of a word on the basis of similarities of shape, sound
and size, and, so a lesser extent, of movement and texture.