Re: Italian vs Turkish

From: Harlan Messinger (h.messinger_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:29:38 -0500

"Greg Lee" <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu> wrote in message
news:cr1143$5kb$1@news.hawaii.edu...

>
> Every time all the speakers of a village were killed, leaving only
> young children to fend for themselves and exercise their language
> capacity by inventing one to communicate with one another, you got
> a new language not descended from any one existing. So, it's
> disputable.

I'm trying to imagine how a community consisting exclusively of prelingual
children (read: babies) would survive.

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