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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3A) Critical Hypothesis Theory and the importance of early language exposure to children......3B) Justification on whether in critical period child can acquire second language equally.........5C) The success of language acquisition depends on cognitive and affective factors..................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONPsycholinguistics is the study of two factors that are associated with this word –psychology and linguistics. Psychology is the study of mind and behaviour whereas linguistics isthe study of language. So is is related to the relationship between the human mind and languageand studies the process that occurs in the human brain while producing and perceiving language.Three main points related to psycholinguistics are language production, language perception andlanguage acquisition (Alrabai, 2015). In this project report the importance of exposing childrento language as early as possible so that language can be acquired by them will be discussed indetail. Critical period hypothesis will also be explained with an opinion on whether the childshould be exposed to a second language during this period. Two important factors on whichlanguage acquisition is dependent on i.e. cognitive and affective factors are also discussed in thisreport so that a wide idea can be generated on how language acquisition in children cab be mademore efficient.MAIN BODYA) Critical Hypothesis Theory and the value of early exposure of children to languageCritical Period hypothesis was given by Montreal neurologist Wilder Penfield and co-author Lamar Roberts in their book Speech and brain Mechanisms, 1959. This hypothesis saysthat language learning is biologically connected to the age of a person. This hypothesis assertsthat there is an ideal time period when language can be easily acquired after which it becomesmore and more challenging and effort-full. It also states that the beginning years of life are themost critical where a human being can easily acquire a first language if adequate stimulus isprovided (How can young children best learn languages?, 2016). After this period is lapsed andno language input is given, it becomes difficult for the individual to achieve a full command onlanguage especially the grammatical system. Some aspects of language such as prefrontalsynthesis i.e. the conscious purposeful process of synthesizing mental images unlike dreaming ormemory recall, have strong critical periods and cannot be acquired if the critical period ends.Other aspects of language however, such as phonological learning (organizing sounds intomeaning or language by children), grammar processing, vocabulary acquisition etc. have weakcritical periods and can be learned in later stages of life through training processes.
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