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Date: 03/11/2019
The way of communication to convey meaning in the form of symbol signs and words a method
that all humans used called language. On the basis of language acquisition so many researches
have been conducted because children born with a blank slate, therefore most of theories focus on
language development and their utterances. Language acquisition is the method whereby children
learn their first language. All humans have an innate ability to learn language. Children may
acquire more than one language. For example, children who grow up in a region where only one
language is spoken and heard he learns one language as compared to the region where more than
According to the babbling theory around six months children start babbling and eventually
imitating the linguistic sounds that they hear in the immediate environment. At the age of 12
months the first true words emerge (baba, dada, mama etc.). With the passage of time these single
words embodied the communicative functions of entire phrases, for example the child word baba
means Father or where is Father? And according to the situation Psycholinguist called them
holophrastic, or one word utterances Nordiquist. In normal education situations, the holophrases
reveal that a great deal of neurophysiological and conceptual development has taken place in the
In the age of holophrastic stage children can name objects, express actions or the desire to carry
out actions and convey emotional states effectively. Early holophrases children’s relatively
idiosyncratic and their uses can change and evolve over time in stable manner.
Table 1: Examples of Idiosyncratic Words
In this figure the given examples are collected from those children who specifically lying in the
age group of 18 to 24 months old. Research was conducted in the Houses where the child was
asked to speak and repeat the words. For Example, when he asked to say hello he replied Ello.
After this he asked to speak a phrase “are you listen” he replied only a word listen. This research
shows that the child is picking the word but without knowing its meaning.
3-4 years Men atha batta hoon Men acha bacha hon
Je dogi hy Ye dogi hy
In figure 2 given examples are collected from a boy who is a school going and lies in the age of
3.5 year. He is able to understand the words and also answered the question but one thing is that
even in the age of 3.5 years he didn’t pronounce the complete word therefore it is a good example
of idiosyncratic phrases. In figure 1.2 phrases “mudy ushny mala hy” it is a urdu phrase and sample
is a urdu speaking boy Actually he said (Mujy ucny mara hy )in the given examples word
“mudy,ushny,atha,batta,and je” are the words that are idiosyncratic. Additionally we can say that
his both abilities thinking and understanding are grown with the age but the problem is that he is
3.5 Ice talem, ice talem Making Noise for “ Ice Cream”
4 years Aik do teen chaal Other child also replied but in another way
In the figure 3 is an example of two boys, one of them showing his eagerness and involvement in
conversation with their friends A is a boy and B is a girl. “A” shows his excitement about the
previous day and making noise to tell about. While describing he used the phrases that are made
of idiosyncratic words. He tells the group of his fellows all about the all visit where they go and
what he has done and one thing that is interesting is that where he feels his fellows are getting
bored in that moment he tells about the eating stuff and about the games and then also say him we
These tables are all about the idiosyncratic language that how a child produced his word in its
childhood means in age of 2 to 6 years. If we think about the babbling theory a 9 month child
produce word mama and baba or dada with the passage of time he learn more words from his
family. According to the Pakistani context there are joint family systems where a child learns very
In Figure 1 we judged the idiosyncratic words like “ellow” with the passage of time this word
becomes “Hello” but after it child get more words than that if we see in the table 2 at phrase level
child are able to speak the words but new words that he speaks are not pronounced clearly in the
figure 3 at the age of 4 years the same mistakes but less than the figure 2 we can say that child
After the analysis and discussion we are up to results that children usually speak those words that
they heard or learn from their environment and surroundings. According to the researchers and
philosophers the child learns language with time and participation in the social interaction where
he learns communicative competence. Vygotsky said that learning is affected by social influence.
McCarthy D 1993 is concerned about child language and speech there is a discussion on language
about development processes and environments that effect on it. From this the focus shifts towards
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