Shahadat, Naila2017-10-132017-10-132015https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/2156Supervised by:Dr. Muhammad Shaban RafiThe purpose of this study was to observe language development in a child from the birth up to the age of 9 months. The present research focused on the acquisition of human speech sounds by a child, in comparison with non-human sounds. Other than that, the study also tried to explore the effects of audio-visual elements on language development. A new born baby boy was the subject of the current study. The total observation period of 9 months was broken down into three stages. Each stage comprised of three months of child’s age. The data was collect edin the form of audio and video recordings, documents and interviews with family members of the subject. After observing the subject for 9 months, conclusions were drawn and compared with past studies in the same area. A child goes through many human and non-human sounds during his language acquisition period but as devised by Chomsky (2004) that language is innate (Chomsky, 2004), child accepts only human speech signals to acquire language. The research concluded that both sound and image help a child to acquire a language. Individually, they cannot be beneficial in developing language in a child. Language development is a systematic process, which is achieved by a child in the early period of his or her life, no matter child comes across how many human and non-human sounds. It becomes easier for a child when he or she finds pictorial representation of what he or she listen.enlanguage developmentpresent researchM.Phil thesisThesis