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Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid
New Straits Times
05-29-2001
The lore of language acquisition
Byline: Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid
Edition: 2*
Column: As I wonder

THE capacity for language acquisition is unique to the human species. The phoneme, the morpheme, word are the smallest meaningful units. Combined together, they form phrases, utterances, and enable Man to build an oral tradition. When graphemes are combined in the ideographic Chinese alphabet or in the Roman and Arabic alphabets, they build sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books, encyclopaedia, thesaurus, the written traditions. Both the oral and ...

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