Language As A Receiver And A Sender

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“Communication is sharing information among two or more persons” (Pence & Justice, 2008, p.16) (as cited by Watchel, 2016). When communicating there is a receiver and a sender. The process of communication involves four steps. Step one: formulation – the gathering of the thoughts, step two: transmission – the thoughts being conveyed, step three: reception – the message being received and step four: comprehension – the message being understood (Watchel, 2016). Language contains three domains, content relates to words and their meanings. Forms relates to the organization of sentences, words, and sounds, to convey a message. Use relates to why language is used. The components of language are semantics – language content – relates to word, word combination, and meanings. Syntax – language form – syntax relates to the rules for sentence organization. Morphology – language form – relates to word organization. Phonology – language form – phonology relates to sound organization used to make words. Pragmatics – language use – relates to rules for language use. Human language is complex and multifaceted with multiple domains and (Watchel, 2016)

To understand how children, develop language we must consider a controversial topic - nature versus nature. (Watchel, 2016) Nativist believe children develop language due to nature. Linguist Noam Chomsky proposed the theory of Universal Grammar. Universal Grammar states that humans are born with an innate language faculty, or capacity to acquire language – which is also sometimes referred to as the Language Acquisition Device (LAD). Behaviorist believe children develop language due to nurture. B.F. Skinner (Operant Conditioning Theory) believes language is acquired through modeling and reinforcemen...

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...two word combinations that are not sentences (Watchel, 2016).

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