Research into the Language in Childs Development.

The linguistic list at lingusticlist.org/ask-ling/lang-acq.cfm – Ask a Linguist FAQ “All children acquire language in the same way, regardless of what language they use or the number of languages they use. Acquiring a language is like learning to play a game. Children must learn the rules of the language game, for example how to articulate words and how to put them together in ways that are acceptable to the people around them. In order to understand child language acquisition (…)” followed by questions and answers such as: “How long does it take to acquire language?” “Do all children learn at the same rate?” “How do children handle to language acquisition process?” and “What strategies do children use in learning language?”

The website is very clearly structured, giving an answer to every enquiry and covering all ground of child language acquisition.

https://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/comsly/ “4:1 Child Language acquisition theory [covering the grounds of theorists]- Chomsky, Crystal, Aitchison and Piaget.” This website states clearly four main theories made by the mentioned above with a clear bullet pointed list under  each theorist. Stating things such as the grammatical structures, syntactic structures and certain linguistics structures in relation to child acquisition. The entirety of the information is very formal but gives very clear ways to understand each process including for and against for each individual theory/theorist. It also includes an example of dialogue with explanations including terminology, with each line.

Simply Psychology at www.simplypsychology.org/langauge.html Language acquisition by Helena Lemetyinen 2012 – “Language is a cognition that truly makes us human. Whereas other species do communicate with an innate ability to produce a limited number of meaningful vocalizations (e.g. bonobos), or even with partially learned systems (e.g. bird songs), there is no other species known to date that can express infinite ideas (sentences) with a limited set of symbols (speech sounds and words).This ability is remarkable in itself. What makes it even more remarkable is that researchers are finding evidence for mastery of this complex skill in increasingly younger children. Infants as young as 12 months are reported to have sensitivity to the grammar needed to understand causative sentences (who did what to whom; e.g. the bunny pushed the frog (Rowland & Noble, 2010). After more than 60 years of research into child language development, the mechanism that enables children to segment syllables and words out of the strings of sounds they hear, and to acquire grammar to understand and produce language is still quite an enigma.” This website is brilliant for the psychological side of child language acquisition. It includes early theories, universal grammar, contemporary research and a conclusion with added references and full explanations under each sub heading.