Re: Do Children Learn Languages at Different Rates?

>Ruud Harmsen wrote:
>> >> http://cnl.psych.cornell.edu/papers/LandC-cogsci2002.pdf

>> >Try summarizing the answer. I'll trust Claudio's evaluation.
>> The article starts with a summary, isn't it easier to just read that?

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:32:32 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
>No. Assuming the pdf includes graphics, and otherwise depending on its
>size, /

The PDF-file mentioned is 126,836 bytes in size.

>it could take 20 minutes to download,

That's a 70 seconds download even with an archaic 14k4 modem; with a
more modern 56k modem (which usually only do some 43k in practice)
it's 24 seconds.
Using a slow ADSL connection of 512 kb/s (I downgraded to the cheapest
I could find, then 384 kb/s, but meanwhile upgraded, at the same
price, to 1.5 Mb/s) it's two seconds.
So what on earth are you talking about? 20 minutes is 1200 seconds,
which in this case is 845 bits (not bytes) per second. Are you still
using a 1985 1200 baud modem?

>during which time my
>computer is unavailable for any other use.

Why? What operating system are you using? All that I have seen in the
last 20+ years except MSDOS were multi-tasking, and even for DOS there
was software already in 1990 to run multiple tasks.

--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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