All the human beings speak a certain kind of language and more. But have you ever ob serve the process of an infant’s beginning of learning a language from its parents What is the importance of a language to an infant Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick Ⅱ in the thirteenth century it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than language deprivation here. What was missing was good mothering, in the first year of life especially; the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such drastic deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for that is that the mother is in sensitive to th
A. they do not listen carefully to their mothers.
B. their brains have to absorb too much language at once.
C. their mother do not respond to their attempt to speak.
D. their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them.
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