FENOMENA PEMEROLEHAN BAHASA: Sudut Pandang Teori Modern, Keagamaan dan Kearifan Lokal Minangkabau

Current issues in language acquisition problems always become a burning issue for linguists especially for psycholinguists and sociolinguists. The questions about how and when a language acquired by human has been answered so far but it did not give the final answer of the questions yet. It was caused by the different point of view from the linguists. Most of the linguists conducted various research by using only one perspective namely “modern theory.” Actually there are many traditional and cultural ways (which we can call perspective) which have been initiated by our ancestors but we often left them behind. Two of the perspectives are religious and local wisdom. Religious perspective has introduced us the process of language acquisition from early childhood phase until the maturity of a language acquisition. But it is seldom explored deeply by the linguists. The language acquisition process is also practiced and guided by the people who live in West Sumatera through their habit in educating their baby until they are able to speak fluently. The example of the cultural life which shows the phenomenon such as singing when feeding the baby, telling the story, doing monologue with the baby and so on. Through this theoretical construction it is expected to all linguists to conduct a research about language acquisition based on several perspectives and approaches like religion and cultural point of view. This article is expected to give a new information for language studies and to make us aware of the integration and interconnection of the field of science to answer unsolved problems especially in language studies