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Language Acquisition The acquisition of language "is doubtless the greatest intellectual feat any one of us is ever required to perform." (Leonard Bloomfield, Language; 1993) The capacity to learn language is deeply ingrained in us as a species, just as the capacity to walk, to grasp objects, to recognize faces. We don't find any serious differences in children growing up in congested urban slums, in isolated mountain villages, or in privileged suburban villas. (Dan Slobin, the Human Language Series.2; 1994) The above two examples tell us that language acquisition is born to us, and everybody has the right and obligation to acquire a certain language. While there exist several thousand languages in the world, and more and more people are trying to learn more languages besides their mother tongue, we find that language acquisition an important topic for these issues. Then what is language acquisition? Language acquisition is one...

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