Dear Parents/Guardians,
This newsletter is to keep you informed and up-to-date on the importance of language acquisition in your children. Language is a way by which we interact and communicate with others (Piper, 2012). It is imperative that, as great influencers in children’s lives, we understand language and its attributes to aid in their development. There are four attributes of language: arbitrariness, semanticity, productivity, and displacement. Arbitrariness in language represents words being unpredictable from their meanings. For example, “The animal known in English as pig is represented by other words in other languages” (Piper, 2012).