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1. Explain the process of acquiring a mother tongue language by a child!

Language acquisition is the process whereby children learn their native language. It consists
of abstracting structural information from the language they hear around them
and internalising this information for later use. This conception of language acquisition can
explain why one can produce a theoretically unlimited set of sentences in one's native
language. This stance is known as the nativist view and contrasts with an
earlier empiricist view. This is the acquisition of the mother tongue.
0) 0.0 - 0.3 Organic sounds, crying, cooing
1) 0.4 - 0.5 Beginning of the babbling phase
2) 0.10 - 1 The first comprehensible words. After this follow one-word, two-word and many-
word sentences. The only word stages is known as the holophrastic stage; Telegraphic speech
refers to speech with only nouns and verbs.
3) 2.6 Inflection occurs, negation, interrogative and imperative sentences
4) 3.0 A vocabulary of about 1000 words
5) 5.0 The main syntactic rules have been acquired
2. What do you know about hemispheres?
Our brain is divided into 2 halves, or hemispheres, that are connected to each other by the
corpus callosum. These two hemispheres control the motion in and receive sensory inputs
from the opposite side of our body. In other words, the left hemisphere controls the right
side of our body and also receives sensory inputs from the right side of our body.
 The left brain
The left hemisphere of our brain handles tasks such as reading, writing, speaking,
arithmetic reasoning and understanding. 
 The right brain
The right hemisphere of our brain excels in visual perception, understanding spatial
relationships, recognizing patterns, music, emotional expressions, etc. It is also good
at making inferences.
 Brain lateralization
The degree of lateralization varies from one person to another. For example, for
right-handed people, the control of language is probably concentrated more in the left
hemisphere while for left-handed people, the language centres are more likely located
more in the right hemisphere.
 The split-brain experiment
In one experiment, a blindfolded patient was asked to touch an object with his right
hand and then name the object. Since the right side of the body is controlled by the
left hemisphere, where the language centres are normally located, the split-brain
patient was able to complete the task without problem. However, if the same patient
was asked to touch the object with his left hand and then name the object, he was not
able to complete the task.
3. What do you know about Broca and Wernicke?
Wernicke’s area is the region of the brain that is important for languge development. It is
located in the temporal lobe on the left sida of the comprehension of speech, while
Broca’s area is related to production of speech. Language development or usage can be
seriously impaired by damage to Wernicke’s area of the brain.
4. What makes human differ from animal?
There are many traits and behaviours that make humans exceptional. Some of these traits
and behaviours are easy to identify. To take one example, humans communicate
linguistically in a way that is strikingly different from our great ape ancestors. And while
there are other differences between humans and animals, many are hard to identify and
quantify. Over the last fifty years or so, however, researchers have developed models,
experimental paradigms and tests that provide greater and greater insight into what makes
human beings exceptional.
One important difference between humans and animals is the extent to which humans
employ huge amounts of knowledge and technology. While it is true that some animals
build structures (think, for instance, of beaver dams) and that some use tools (with the
New Caledonian crow being an exceptional instance), humans not only have a large and
varied tool-kit, but also use this tool-kit to survive in almost all the terrestrial territories of
the globe.