"phitlhelelo puo loleme ke tsela batho ba fitlhelelang bokgoni go bona le go tlhaloganya puo language gape le go tsweletsa le go dirisa mantswe words le mafoko sentences go buisana phitlhelelo puo ke nngwe ya dilo tse di botlhokwa mo maitshwarong batho ka gonne diphedi tse dingwe ga di dirisi puo go golalagana non humans do not communicate by using language phitlhelelo puo go le gontsi go lebisitswe go phitlhelelo puo pele ithutang ka moo masea fitlheleng puo ya tsalo native language se se farologantshwa le phitlhelelo puo pedi second language acquisition eo dirang le phitlhelelo mo baneng children le bagolong ya go atisa puo tse dingwe bokgoni ba go tswelela go dirisa puo go tlhoka gore fumane didiriswa di le dintsi di akaretsa phonology morphology syntax semantics le tlotlontswe vocabulary tibileng puo ka buiwa jaaka mo puong kgotsa ka matsogo diatla jaaka letshwao sign boteng ba puo ya motho bo emetswe mo bobokong le fa boteng ba puo ya motho bo na le bofelo mongwe ka bua kgotsa tlhaloganya mafoko mmalwa se nang bofelo se se itshetlegile mo moreong wa syntactic go tweng ke recursion sesupo se kaya gore mongwe le mongwe na le recursive mechanisms tse tharo tseo di dumellelang mafoko go ba indeterminately mechanisms me raro ke relativization complementation and coordination gape bonneteng go na le two main guiding principles mo phitlhelelong ya puo ya ntlha se ke speech perception ka gale etelela speech production le the gradually evolving system seo ka sone bana ba ithutang puo se agiwang kgato le nngwe ka sebaka nako simolola ka pharologanyo magareng individual phonemes history lepokisi la go fitlhelela puo philosophers in ancient societies ba ne ba na le kgatlhego ya ka moo batho ba fitlheletseng bokgoni ba go utlwisisa le go tlhagisa puo sesheng pele diteko tsa empirical methods tsa go leka dithiori tseo di tlhagiswa le fa go le jalo ba ne ba lebega ba tsaa phitlhelelo puo jaaka bontlhangwe jwa bokgoni jwa motho go ka fitlhelela kitso le go ithuta mantswe concepts dikakanyo tse di itshetlegileng mo tebelelong ya sesheng mabapi le phitlhelelo puo di ne tsa proposwa ke plato yo akantseng gore word meaning mapping ka sebopego sengwe tsaletswe ke tlhago go tlaleletsa sanskrit grammarians ba ne tlhotlhomisa go feta disentshwari tse di somepedi gore bokgoni ba motho go itse bokao ba lentswe ke ba go fiwa ke modimo ka tsalo tlhago kgotsa bo fetisitswe go tswa tshekeng tsa pele ba ithutwa go tswa go tseo di setseng di itsewa ngwana ithuta lefoko la kgomo ka go utlwelela dibui tse ditshepegileng di bua ka kgomo in more modern context empiricists like thomas hobbes and john locke argued that knowledge and for locke language emerge ultimately from abstracted sense impressions these arguments lean towards the nurture side of the argument that language is acquired through sensory experience which led to rudolf carnap aufbau an attempt to learn all knowledge from sense datum using the notion of remembered as similar to bind them into clusters which would eventually map into language proponents of behaviorism argued that language may be learned through form of operant conditioning in skinner verbal behaviour he suggested that the successful use of sign such as word or lexical unit given certain stimulus reinforces its momentary or contextual probability since operant conditioning is contingent on reinforcement by rewards child would learn that specific combination of sounds stands for specific thing through repeated successful associations made between the two successful use of sign would be one in which the child is understood for example child saying up when he or she wants to be picked up and rewarded with the desired response from another person thereby reinforcing the child understanding of the meaning of that word and making it more likely that he or she will use that word in similar situation in the future some empiricist theories of language acquisition include the statistical learning theory charles hockett of language acquisition relational frame theory functionalist linguistics social interactionist theory and usage based language acquisition see also"