Aligning terms in the field of child language acquisition in English and Latvian

Comprehensive development of the transdisciplinary field of child language acquisition is of utmost importance, as understanding of language acquisition processes at the earliest stages ensures successful formation and progressive shaping of the desired social, communicative and, hence, linguistic behaviour. The authors of the paper focus on the communicative plane of the process, which requires considering such issues as language use, meaning representation, semanticity of terms and their interlingual alignment. The aim of the given paper is to explore terminology development in the field of child language acquisition in English and Latvian, considering linguistic language development categories and their relation to the child age stages. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).