ABSTRACT
Language acquisition is a nature-nurture process, involving a biological capacity to acquire language and an environment that is brimming with it. Language is clearly not a static entity, but a varied and ever-changing system of communication. In addition to the creative ways language is employed across a culture, there are interesting variations from place to place and time to time. The latter brain structure activates the muscles of respiration, voicing, and articulation, which coordinate their movements to make recognizable speech. The positions of the different articulators, and thus the specific resonating features of the resulting tone, depend on the sound being produced. In truth, the skills of cognition, language, and speech develop simultaneously, starting at birth and proceeding gradually toward an adult model. The components of thought, language, and speech develop concurrently and influence one another in terms of both development and implementation. Language users need to understand the social appropriateness of different language forms and content.
