Mohammad Halili

The hypothesis starts when Whorf argues that the Hopi people in Arizona do not conjugate verbs into past, present, and future tenses as English speakers do and that their words for units of time (like “day” or “hour”) were verbs rather than nouns. From this finding, he believes that Hopi people do not see time as a physical object that can be counted in minutes and hours, as contrast to English speakers. Hopi people, according to Whorf, view time as a formless process. Others than account that Hopi people do not have any concept of time (Green, 2023) . Its relativity can also be seen from a number of languages. English and many other European languages normally that perceive the future in front of us and the past as being behind us, in Swedish for instance (framtid/front time). But In Aymara language, spoken by Aymara people who live in Andes in Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Argentina, the word for future means “behind time”. They tend to make backward gestures when talking about future...

One of the topics covered here is about the stages in children language acquisition. This section provides useful information about ages, that all parents or caregivers need to be aware of, should come along with their vocabulary accretion. Meaning that children in a particular age should indicate a particular tier of recognized and meaningful words. Furthermore, this also addresses the speech and language delay, that is increasingly becoming an anxious issue especially in the last two decades. The students doing language studies can make the most of this book. The reason for this is that Psycholinguistics is one of the course units offered. The materials that are presented friendly-language use can help them to gain understanding effectively. However, non-linguistics students such as Psychology, and practitioners, researchers, teachers, parents, and anyone interested in children language development can take advantage of it too. This could be a source for further developmental knowl...