| Summary: | For centuries parents, scholars and teachers have been
fascinated and amazed fay the phenomenon of language
acquisition in children. How are we to account for the fact that "virtually every child, without undergoing special
training, exposed to surface structure of language in many
interactional contexts, builds for himself in a short
period of time and at an early stage in his cognitive a deep leve1, abstract, and highly complex system of
linguistic structure and use . " (In Lindfors; 1987) Hence a
number of theories have been formulated on the acquisition of language.
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