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eg. ‘present relevance’ & the perfect tense
• The cognitive factors determine how the child makes sense of the linguistic system himself instead of what meanings the child perceives and expresses. • eg. three stages in the process of learning the
• Language acquisition refers to the child’s acquisition of his mother tongue.
e.g. how the child comes to understand and speak the language of his community.
negative form.
10.4 Language environment and the Critical Period Hypothesis
• All child language acquisition theories talk about the roles of two factors to different degrees: the linguistic environment children are exposed to and the age they start to learn the language.
• Practice: repetitive manipulation of one structure / pattern
e.g. I can handle it, Hannah can handle it. WE can handle it.