A remarkable fact about the acquisition of language is the speed with which a child is able to acquire a language. Language is a complex phenomenon and a normal child masters this exceedingly complex phenomenon with an astonishing speed and in circumstances usually less tan ideal. The speed of language acquisition is not conditioned by the socio-economic environment in which a child starts acquiring language nor is it conditioned by the history, culture or even the complexity of the language which is being acquired by the child. Furthermore the span of time required by a child for acquiring a language is found to be more or less the same. Within a linguistic group normal children arrive at the same grammar of a language within a broadly identical brief span of time with almost the same speed.
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