The document discusses different theories about how children acquire language abilities. It mentions Chomsky's theory that children have innate language knowledge and learn language despite sometimes hearing ungrammatical sentences. It also notes that the speech children hear from parents and others is not simplified or emphasized, though adults do sometimes use shorter sentences and simplified phonology and words with children. Repetition, expansion, and imitation help children learn language, but they also show the ability to learn and follow rules of grammar.

1. Essentials in learning
and processing
Nature of speech
environmental input.
and

2. Presented To:
Ma’am Bushra Saeed
Presented by:
Ayesha javaid
Sunila Akhtar
Mahpara Sadaf
Asif Hussain

3. Chomsky’s theorizing
about innate language
knowledge.
Language was not learned but
mysteriously acquired

4. The speech of parents and
others was not thought to
be special.
Not simplifified shortened or
emphasized

5. Immediate environment
Ungrammatical sentences are
found to occur but rarely

6. Chomsky’s claim that children
learn
language
despite
exposed to a high proportion
of “degnerate”sentences.

7. With regard to
simplification adults
general use short simple
sentences

8. For example,mama instead of
mother simplified phonology and
structure e.g word pattern such
as wa-wa and bye bye are used
rather than the more complex
sound of water and good bye..

9. Repetition and expansion
also assist the child in this
same regard.
Expansions such as a child: mommy
lunch.mother:yes.mommy is making
lunch,or child:give daddy mother:give
it to daddy,undoubtedly serve to
promote learning

10. Acquisition of language
The question remains as to
whether simplification is essential
for language learning to occur.

11. Imitation, rule learning
and correction.
In
learning
language,childern
acquire much through imitation.

12. The child’s production of
certain novel single but
morphologically complex
words and sentences
cannot be explain through
imitation

13.  The child actually does
imitate a multitude of
words and phrases,and
even a number of
sentences.

14. The child will seek to revise a
previously formulated rule so
that the output will match
that of the mature speaker
output

15.  Two types of functions,
1. Through the direct copying of speech.
2. Through motivating the child to make rule
adjustment

16. Consider the anecdote by
MACNILL in this regard.
 Son:nobody don”t like me,
 Mother : nobody likes me
 Above sequence repeated eight times
 Mother ( in dispiration) now, listen carefully. Nobody
likes me
 Son oh ! Nobody don’t likes me

17. The desire of children to
approximate“ mature
speakers”utterences along with
their remarkable intellectual
ability.

18. THE END

19. QUESTIONS ?