Re: History of French

From: John Atkinson (johnacko_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:58:38 GMT

"Peter Dy" <peterdy@sbcglobal.net> wrote...
>
> "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote
>
> > Children learn by practicing a sound thousands and thousands of times,
> > until others stop ridiculing the way they say it.
>
> Where do you come up with this stuff?! Lol.

Yeah. I've seen evidence in the child-language-learning literature that
whether or not care-givers bother to correct children when they say
something "wrong" is very culture dependent. And that it makes absolutely
no difference to the speed at which they learn not to make errors in their
native language whether they are ever corrected or not.

The only difference they found is that kids whose speech is continually
corrected get cranky.

Peter: you've no doubt had experience both with German and
traditionally-reared Chinese kids. Does the above make sense to you?

John.

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