Re: History of French

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:12:53 +0200

Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:43:02 +0200: Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>: in
sci.lang:

>Ruud Harmsen writes:
>
>> Right. Her story convinced me that a critical period exists, but I
>> don't think it tells us much about why L1 learning and post-puberty L2
>> learning works so much differently.
>
>They _appear_ to work differently. But there's no way to control for
>the huge environmental differences between the two, so there's no way of
>knowing if there is any different in aptitude at all.

They _are_ very different, that's easy to verify, and it has been
done. The question is why there are different: aptitude or
attitude/situation? Genie case does not tell us much, if anything,
about that.
I think that what we agree upon. But the others don't unless I
misunderstood them.
So my question remains: how does Genie's case show us that differences
in L1 and L2 learnings (speed, order, best method) are cause by
aptitude? By changes in the brain? 

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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