1. Theories of language development
ARKAPRAVA CHAKRABORTY
ROLL NO: 3, B.Ed(1ST SEMESTER)
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2. INTRODUCTION**
Children begin developing language at birth as they interact with their caregivers.
Children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are exposed to diverse experiences; this diversity creates the concepts to which children attach symbols, or words.

3. Theories of language development
Saussure theory
Bloomfield theory
Chomsky theory

4. Saussure theory Language is a human phenomena
Semiology(analysis of linguistic science)
Language & parole
Syntagmatic and paradigmatic
Synchrony & diachrony

5. Bloomfield theory Utterance Speech community
Fundamental assumption of linguistics
Behaviorist concept of meaning
Linguistic forms
(Morpheme,word,syntax,phrase,phoneme)

6. Chomsky theory I language Abstract Innate hypothesis
Language acquisition device
Language faculty
Generative phonology
Parameter setting model
Generative grammar
Chomsky hierarchy

7. Conclusion
Language development is not stagnant. It is a continuous process from the beginning of civilization. From mughal emperor Akbar to Darwin, all of them tried to discover the history of language. Now a days the theories of language development is not bound to any generation or country.

8. References
anguage/language.html
atsIsAPhoneme.htm

9. Acknowledgement
Dr. Aniruddha Burmon
My classmates & seniors

10. THANK YOU