1 Acquisition Almost all humans acquire at least one language before the age of five Although people gain vocabulary throughout

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1 Acquisition Almost all humans acquire at least one language before the age of five Although people gain vocabulary throughout their lifetimes even young children are able to understand and produce complex sentences with complicated meanings How do children accomplish this remarkable feat in such a short amount of time Do adults learn language differently from children Linguistic researchers have long debated the answers to these questions but most agree that both nature and nurture are involved in language acquisition They disagree however about how much linguistic knowledge children have from birth and thus whether genetics or experience is more important in language acquisition How do the fifth and sixth paragraphs work together They introduce adult language acquisition and then show why it s unpopular They both raise open questions that all linguists have They present two contrasting perspectives on language learning They both emphasize the importance of experience in language learning

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