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    Children learn their native language efficiently and without instruction. All languages have rules governing their sound, vocabulary, and grammatical systems. Language is shaped by and shapes the societies and individuals that use it.

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    9 Ideas About Language by Harvey Daniels

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    Nine Ideas About

    Language
    by Harvey Daniels (1985)

    LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY


    1. Children learn their native language (L1)
    SWIFTLY, EFFICIENTLY, and largely WITHOUT
    INSTRUCTION.

    2. Language operates by RULES.

    3. All languages have three major components: a


    sound system (PHONOLOGY), a vocabulary
    (MORPHOLOGY), and a system of grammar
    (SYNTAX).
    4. Everyone speaks a DIALECT.

    5. Speakers of all languages employ a


    range of STYLES and a set of
    SUB-DIALECTS or JARGONS.

    6. Language CHANGE is NORMAL.


    7. Languages are intimately related to the
    SOCIETIES and INDIVIDUALS who use them.

    8. Value judgments about different languages


    or dialects are MATTERS OF TASTE.

    9. Writing is DERIVATIVE of SPEECH.

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