Abstract
The scientific study of language development was perhaps securely established by 1891, when G.S. Hall's journal Pedagogical Seminary began to feature systematic accounts of aspects of language development. Activity before this date is reviewed. A striking experiment was carried out by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in the 16th century and some useful observations were made in the 18th century by Le Comte de Buffon and others. In the late 19th century a series of short papers by Charles Darwin and others appeared in the journal Mind and this was soon followed by monographs dealing with child development, and including substantial coverage of language development, from Bernard Perez and Wilhelm Preyer. These monographs stimulated activity in Europe and America, and incorporated it in successive editions.
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