Re: Do Children Learn Languages at Different Rates?

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:46:32 GMT: "Joseph W. Murphy"
<jwmurphy700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

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

Very strange story. Arabic isn't extremely difficult, grammatically,
is it?
Perhaps they tested children who learnt a spoken vernacular against
the Standard Arabic they only learn in school? Including case endings
that the vernaculars don't have?
Like testing Italian children for their mastery of Latin grammar?

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

I'm curious too.

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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