Prenatal language learning

prosody
speech melody

Stages of first-language acquisition

maturation of Wernicke's and Broca's area
babbling phase

acquisition of motor skills
use of gestures

language is a form of interaction.
illocutionary acts: directive acts > declarative acts > interrogative acts
existential and presentative propositions: ‘(look) there is an X’

holophrastic phase

segmentation of utterances into words: acquisition of vocabulary

phraseologisms

schematization and analogy

abstraction of general rules

overgeneralization
entrenchment
preemption

writing
fluent and accurate speaking

reflective competence