Keyword: «individual differences»

The paper analyzes the main results of domestic and foreign psycholinguistic researches of speech and language development of a child. There are subject orientation of speech development and language acquisition, researchers interested in natural mechanisms of speech and language ability and intentional direction of development of a child as the subject of speech and language activity. A wide range of researches is devoted to the study of individual differences in language acquisition and creative nature of the process. The author raises the issue of sociocultural conditionality of speech and language development of a child.