Early childhood language development: a case study of a Sri Lankan Tamil child’s progress in language acquisition

The paper presents a case study of early childhood language development focused on Tamil child from Sri Lanka. research aims to analyse the progress Lanka achieves in at five levels: phonological, morphological, syntactical, semantic, and pragmatic. methodology involves five-fold linguistic analysis some utterances extracted conversation between researcher subject, who is six-year-old Lankan child, based story presented form monologue. It reveals that had acquired necessary skills communicate his thoughts advance conversation. Also, speech equal an adult, if not for interlanguage expressions discourse markers. findings reveal has managed internalise structure language, which mother tongue. possesses considerable fund ‘language universals’ are required narration story. Although own creation but heard teachers or parents, he makes similar those used by adult. Most sentences utters represent high level competence. So, this identifies child’s output under Chomsky’s mentalist approach transformational generative acquisition. perceived innate faculties help him utter sentences, addition exposure use adults environment.