Re: Do Children Learn Languages at Different Rates?

Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Peter> The context was not the nature of language. The context was
> Peter> making corrections.
>
> >> I witness from time to time corrections for BOTH vocabular AND
> >> grammar made by adults and parents to children. I don't
> >> pretend that they don't exist.
>
> Peter> Corrections of grammar have no effect.
>
> Yes, they do! Children learn from them. Young children tend to trust
> the knowledge of their parents, grandparents and teachers a lot. And
> they learn from their corrections, too.

Which books on children's acquisition of language have you read, which
gave you such wrong information?

(By the time they have teachers, they're no longer young children
acquiring their first language.)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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