Transcription of The Study of Language and Language Acquisition
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1 The Study of Language andLanguage AcquisitionWe may regard Language as a natural phenomenon anaspect of his biological nature, to be studied in the samemanner as, for instance, his H. Lenneberg, Biological Foundations of Language ( ), p. naturalistic approach to languageFundamental to modern linguistics is the view that humanlanguage is a natural object: our species-specific ability to acquirea Language , our tacit knowledge of the enormous complexity oflanguage, and our capacity to use Language in free, appropriate,and infinite ways are attributed to a property of the natural world,our brain. This position needs no defense, if one considers thestudy of Language is an empirical follows, then, as in the Study of biological sciences, linguisticsaims to identify the abstract properties of the biological objectunder Study human Language and the mechanisms thatgovern its organization.
tion—are attributed to a small number of parametric choices. The present book is a study of language development in chil-dren. From a biological perspective, the development of language, like the development of other organic systems, is an interaction between internal and external factors; specifically, between the
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