Question

Why are grammatical mistakes that all children make as they acquire language important to psycholinguistics?  What do they reveal about the origins of the language?

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the acquisition of language remains one of the most fascinating aspects of human development. For psycholinguistics, the development of the first monosyllabic utterances to the use of complex, nuanced and context-specific structures in children’s language holds the key to understanding the role of both nature and nurture in the Development of higher cognitive processes such as language. The errors made by children such as use of babbles,

it is not always clear which elements of the acquisition process are innate or extrinsic. Language acquisition involves nvolves the picking up of diverse capacities including syntax, phonetics, and an extensive vocabulary. every normal child may successfully use their native language without much need for formal lessons.However, they often use the established rules of grammar to generate new though erroneous words such as ‘ I drinks water’ based on their familiarity with the rule of simple present tense of adding ‘s’. Thus, linguistics like Chomsky use such errors in children’s use of language to show that language even if learned by extrinsic influence such as parent’s directions, schooling, etc, is by and large innate as children may develop their own new words even if they had no previous exposure to language.