Relationship between language acquisition and experience
... The scientists who conducted this study seem to believe that while in the womb the children became familiar with the language, which was why they were able to grasp the concreteness of it so swiftly. According to the article Annals of Science, “Babies are born with some feeling for or understanding of language on both the phoneme and the sentence level” (p. ... The article also refers to newborns in English-speaking families displaying a preference for the forty phonemes found in the English language, possibly from having heard them in the womb (p. ... Assuming that the results of the study I mentioned earlier is one hundred percent (100%) accurate, I would say that experience with language has an affect on how, when and if at all it is acquired. I would also say that children can determine language prior to birth. However, I believe that although we may have the mechanism to acquire language (i. ... In other words, I feel that experience with language is enhanced due to social stimulation, and lack of this stimulation for an extended period of time diminishes one’s chance of ever obtaining language at a normal ability for one’s age, as was the case for Genie.