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Process in which a first language is acquired
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Language acquisitionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Communicative Feedback in language acquisitionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Language InstinctThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Reading Acquisition, Developmental Dyslexia, and Skilled Reading Across Languages: A Psycholinguistic Grain Size Theory.Cited 2,228 times
- Go sideways: Language developmentA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Bootstrapping (linguistics)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Reading Acquisition, Developmental Dyslexia, and Skilled Reading Across Languages: A Psycholinguistic Grain Size Theory.
First-Language Acquisition After Childhood Differs From Second-Language Acquisition
Language Acquisition Meets Language Evolution
Bootstrapping language acquisition
Language Acquisition is Language Change
Ancestral Language Acquisition
Children's language acquisition.
Third language acquisition
🆕 Influential since 2022
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition
The relation of second language acquisition, instructed second language acquisition, and language teaching from the lens of second language tense-aspect
Instructed Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Pronunciation
Revolutionizing Language Learning: How AI Bots Enhance Language Acquisition
Language and Brain: Neurological Aspects in Language Acquisition
📚 Books worth reading
The Language InstinctSteven Pinker · 1994
Langage et la pensée chez l'enfantJean Piaget · 1926
Second language acquisitionSusan M. Gass, Larry Selinker · 1994
Second language learning theoriesRosamond Mitchell, Florence Myles · 1998
Born to talkLloyd M. Hulit, Merle R. Howard · 1992
Early childhood experiences in language artsJeanne M. Machado · 1975
Language DevelopmentRobert E. Owens · 1984
Through the language glassGuy Deutscher · 2010
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🔗 Related topics
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