First Language Acquisition: Psychological Considerations and Epistemology

Davood Mashhadi Heidar
2012 Theory and Practice in Language Studies  
This article aims to provide an overview of major theoretical approaches and psychological considerations related to child language (first language acquisition). The field is multidimensional, as illustrated by the many courses on child language or language acquisition that are taught in departments of Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Speech Pathology, Education, and Anthropology. This crossdisciplinary nature of the field is also reflected in many handbooks and articles yearly
more » ... hed across the world. In this article I mainly present a general overview of theoretical/epistemological and classical/modern accounts and approaches to the study of first language acquisition. In other words, the present paper is to investigate the psychological/epistemological considerations of first language acquisition with the aim of shedding a bit of light on this human-species phenomenon. Index Terms-first language acquisition, cognitive science, speech pathology, education THEORY AND PRACTICE IN LANGUAGE STUDIES
doi:10.4304/tpls.2.2.411-416 fatcat:4qtde4h725gobh2ysjhfhmnfma