Chomsky cannot help wondering at the fact that we, despite so vast evidence, have little knowledge about the obvious evidence. A good example, I think, is the child’s way of first language acquisition. A great many researchers have studied various aspects of child language acquisition at different stages of the child’ life and have brought to light many details of language development. However,...

This article introduces a quantitative, data-driven method to identify clusters of groups of data points in longitudinal data. We illustrate this method with examples from firstlanguage acquisition research. First, we discuss a variety of shortcomings of current practices in the identification and handling of stages in studies of language acquisition. Second, we explain and exemplify our method...

Chomsky cannot help wondering at the fact that we, despite so vast evidence, have little knowledge about the obvious evidence. A good example, I think, is the child’s way of first language acquisition. A great many researchers have studied various aspects of child language acquisition at different stages of the child’ life and have brought to light many details of language development. However,...

This literature review is aimed at how music affects language acquisition throughout the long term training process or therapy sessions. We discussed, analyzed and summarized several experiment’s results about music’s effects on both physiological(brain, natural system…) psychological side of people in different life stages. found obvious similarity differences their mutual effect. Also, we dev...

This study examined the acquisition of prenominal and postnominal genitives by Iranian EFL learners. Two variables were considered: possessive categories and language proficiency. We considered the influence of possessive categories such as lexical modifier, semantic relationship, and weight and syntactic complexity on genitive alternations by Iranian EFL learners. Also, we examined whether the...