1.   Because language learning is so universal, one is tempted to believe that acquisition of spoken language is automatic or innate.

2.   For the spoken language, students are taught by native speakers.

3.   Furthermore, an adequate characterisation of spoken language requires the integration of descriptive frameworks from different branches of linguistics and psychology.

4.   Glottochronology is a technique developed for spoken languages which has a basic assumption that languages change at a relatively steady rate.

5.   In order of their emergence, they are deferred imitation, symbolic play, drawing, mental imagery, and spoken language.

6.   In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.

7.   In understanding spoken language, lexical access is achieved by using information from the acoustic representation of a word.

8.   It is not however so well suited to an intensive, detailed study of spoken language.

9.   Many facets of spoken language are absent from written language.

10.   Motor abilities, perceptual skills and increasingly sophisticated forms of cognitive representation are all implicated in the mastery of spoken language.