Some Aspects of Syntactic Development in Marathi Speaking Children Aged 2 1/2 - 3 Years—A Descriptive Study

Abstract

Every human child acquires the language of his community, provided he is given a fighting chance by heredity and environment. Language is central to all communities of human beings, ' essential for the regulation of every community the instruction of its young the identification of its members ' (Brown and Miller, 1980), Language is complex and involves highly abstract organizational principles, but child masters a linguistic system, that is for practical purposes identical to the one employed by those around him in a few years. At the age of around 18 months, children begin to form simple two and three word sentences and at four years, they are able to produce sentences of almost every' conceivable syntactic type '. Language thus is almost completely acquired in approximately 30 months.