Academic work from 2012 in the field of education - kindergarten, preschool, early childhood education, grade: 1.0, University of Augsburg, language: German, abstract: Language acquisition is a functional, dynamic process with different dimensions and is one of the most complicated developmental tasks in early childhood. The stages of child language development will be explicitly discussed. The main components of language will be considered: phonological and grammatical-syntactical development, vocabulary development, development of conversational and discursive skills, and phraseology acquisition. From the contents: - Phonological development - Grammatical-syntactical development - Vocabulary development.