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What Is Mother Tongue

A mother tongue is the language a person learns from birth through childhood from their environment and family. It is acquired naturally and effortlessly. A secondary language is one learned later in life, usually for communication purposes, and is learned through a more conscious process than the mother tongue. Animals communicate in various ways like sounds but apes do not have the full range of sounds needed for human language due to differences in their brain and genes.

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What Is Mother Tongue

A mother tongue is the language a person learns from birth through childhood from their environment and family. It is acquired naturally and effortlessly. A secondary language is one learned later in life, usually for communication purposes, and is learned through a more conscious process than the mother tongue. Animals communicate in various ways like sounds but apes do not have the full range of sounds needed for human language due to differences in their brain and genes.

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What is mother tongue? What is secondary language? Discuss.

 
Mother tongue is what we naturally learn as we grow from a baby to a grown-up
individual. Basically, it is because of the environment we live in from day one. The
people surrounding you are the bringers of your so-called "mother tongue" that you
imbibed until a certain moment when you’re able to get out of that place and be
exposed to a different language. Children learn the mother tongue effortlessly and
naturally by listening to the speakers of that particular language. For example, a child
brought up in a Filipino household will grow up acquiring the Filipino language. On the
other hand, a second language is a language a person learns in order to communicate
with the native speaker of that language. A second language is a language usually
learned at the latter stages of life. It can be any language as long as it is not a mother
tongue or native language. For instance, in countries where English is not a native
language, school students are often taught English as a compulsory second language.

Can animals communicate? Explain. Can apes produce language? Support your
answer. 
Animals use a variety of methods to communicate with one another. Some
techniques are noticeable, while others are more subtle. People don't always
understand how animals communicate. Many people believe that animals only use
sound to find other members of their kind. Surprisingly, animals employ a range of
methods to communicate with other creatures, including a variety of strategies. For
example, birds tweet, dog barks, cat's meows, and bears growl. 

No, apes don’t have the full range of vowel production, and that if apes could talk, it
would sound quite different from human speech. Although these animals show complex
capabilities, they are not able to acquire language due to differences in brain structures
and genes.

 
How does language acquisition happen? Explain. 

Language acquisition is defined as the ability to hear and speak a language, and
it is the foundation for many other skills such as vocabulary, writing structure, and other
text-based skills. In the primary stage, children go from babbling to learning 20-30
words using proper syntax. During the years of language acquisition, the brain not only
stores linguistic information but also adapts to the grammatical regularities of language.
Children acquire language through a natural, subconscious process during which they
are unaware of grammatical rules. This happens especially when they acquire their first
language. They repeat what is said to them and get a feel for what is and what is not
correct.

How does language learning happen? Cite an example. 


Language learning is the consequence of direct learning in the rules of the language.
Language learning is not a suitable activity for very young children since it requires
learners to have a cognitive understanding of the new language and the ability to
communicate about it. Most language learners have a basic understanding of the
grammar of the first languages they learned. They know the differences in intonation,
the sound of words, what a grammatically correct word order is in a sentence in the
language, that words can have multiple meanings, etc. When learning a new language,
we use a deductive approach to the target language's intonations, phonology,
morphology, and syntax. This happens when we start being schooled in this language
when we learn to read and write.

For example, watching a film in the target language and trying writing and performing
skits in the target language are some of the examples of language learning.

What happens when a language comes into contact with another? Discuss

The result of such contact may be a new form of language. Language contact can occur
between a few individuals from one language community and a more dominant
language community. These individuals may become multilingual to some degree, but
this kind of contact will have very little, if any, impact on the heritage language of the
individuals. This kind of interaction will also affect the linguistic impact of the contact.

Why is man the only living creature who can produce language? Explain.

Man is the only living creature who can produce language because language is
assigned to certain brain structures that are developed differently in humans as
opposed to other species, and that these developments are based on genetics. As
similar as we humans are in many ways to other species, we are unique among the
earth's life forms in our ability to use language and thought. Having evolved a large and
complex brain, our species has a facility to think, imagine, create, and learn from
experience that far exceeds that of any other species.

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