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Language is the medium by which higher intellectual processes are revealed. It is the essential means of social communication, and is the outstanding system of habits which distinguishes man from the lower animals. Consideration of the vast gap between man and the lower animals gives some insight into the tremendous importance of language in the development of the race, and of the inestimable heritage every normal child has in the mother tongue. Language accounts for the marked contrasts between peoples, and between the intellectual development of the congenitally deaf child and that of the normal child. The aspect of language which is of particular interest to the student of child psychology, however, is the learning of oral language by the young child. The consideration of the acquisition of this intricate system of symbolic habits is one of the most interesting studies in the whole field of learning. It is with this aspect of the problem that this discussion is chiefly concerned. No attempt is made here to cover the field of speech pathology; the emphasis in this instance is placed rather on the normal development of language during the preschool period. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Dec 12, 2011
Keywords: children; language development; child psychology; language learning
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