How Does a Child's Acquisition of Language Typically Proceed from the First Birthday Onwards? In the first four to five years of life, a human will learn how to articulate most of the sounds of English speech and acquire the ability to produce correctly structured sentences, take part in spoken dialogue and use language in order to learn, express emotions and to make personal contact. To achieve this, however, the child must go through the …
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…the acquisition of language is an ongoing process from birth to approximately seven years of age, however there are many exceptions to this rule as each child's use of language develops at a different rate. Language never ceases to evolve as humans are constantly learning new words and new ways of expressing themselves and so it is widely believed that language acquisition is a constant process which only ends with the death of the person.