Child Language Acquisition Model Answer

This is a teacher written question and answer based on the questions on child language acquisition on the Eduqas A Level English Language exam.

‘The rapidity with which children learn how to speak is truly astonishing. It is a highly complex skill, arguably the most complex challenge faced by any human. Of course, children require a great deal of support in order to learn language from parents and other caregivers. The question still remains, how do they acquire language so quickly?’
Janice Peter, University of Middlemarch

Using this extract as a starting point, analyse and evaluate the process of child language acquisition in the first three years.

(N.B. The quotation and researcher has been invented in order to create this exam)