Re: Do Children Learn Languages at Different Rates?

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph W Murphy <jwmurphy700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Joseph> The results were released at the International Association
Joseph> for the Study of Child Language.s 10th congress in
Joseph> Berlin, Germany, where it was indicated that Turkish
Joseph> children could speak their native language by the age of
Joseph> 2-3 years in a grammatically correct manner. Linguistics
Joseph> Professor Klann Delius noted that the Turkish language was
Joseph> easy to learn. .Suffixes in Turkish that determine
Joseph> person and tense are regular. Using them is like arranging
Joseph> Lego pieces.. According to the research, it takes 12
Joseph> years for Arab speaking children, and 4-5 years for German
Joseph> children to acquire the grammatical mastery in their
Joseph> mother tongue.

How about Russian? How about isolating languages?


Joseph> So, is it true that Arab kids can't speak grammatically
Joseph> correct Arabic until age 12?

Even longer than the 10 for Russian that I've heard. I find these
hard to believe.


Joseph> And do kids speaking different languages learn them at
Joseph> different rates?

How can you measure the kids' progress *objectively*? That's
difficult even for the same language. Now, comparing the progress
between different languages is no better than comparing apples and
oranges.

BTW, how many percent of YOUR own mother tongue do you think you have
learnt or mastered?


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