Language, as a symbolic tool and coping strategy, is an important factor of any child’s overall development, and its acquisition by children has been studied by many researchers. Scholars share the conviction that key aspects of personality and ability, including linguistic and communication ability, are formulated in the earliest stages of life. But they are divided on the role of human intuition on one hand and heredity or environment have in childhood development of knowledge, aptitude, and skill. Equally, they are divided on how skills emerge and develop. A number of different theories have been advanced that are meant to explain language acquisition.

To what extent early speech expresses intelligent thought was one of Piaget’s concerns (Piaget, 1965), and that issue has become almost a commonplace constant of language theory. Bohannon and…