Re: Do Children Learn Languages at Different Rates?

From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:20:23 GMT

Joseph W. Murphy wrote:

> It might mean that there are some languages that children find easier to
> learn than others.

In that case, why haven't all languages evolved to be like Turkish? (Or,
more to the point, why would languages have evolved away from the
Turkish pattern?)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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