JEZIČKI RAZVOJ
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: Language is the most advanced system of symbols by which ideas, feelings and thoughts are expressed, transmitted and spoken. Language is a social phenomenon. Interpretations about the origins of language and speech have produced numerous theories and psycholinguistic schools. We need to make a synthesis of different approaches in order to have a complete insight into the subject matter. Nature has ensured an innate capability for language acquisition, but language cannot be acquired without social environment and encouragement, and cognitive development. Language development is not coincidental, it rather follows a certain direction: at the age of six months children coo, and spelling occurs; at the age of eight months children implement certain speech rules; between tenth and twelfth month children speak their first word, and after that word fond increases rapidly, so at the age of eighteen months it reaches number of 50 words actively spoken and about 100 words which children understand. Between the 6th and the 12th year language development is more stabile and peaceful, compared to language explosion during the preschool period. It is necessary to communicate with the children beginning from their very birth; otherwise, children’s brain shall become paralysed to language stimulus and word genesis.

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