Re: First language acquisition


Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
I like to learn, as a pure beginner, a little bit about a
particular aspect of first language acquisition and should be
grateful if experts could give me a good literature pointer.

Why don't you (a) bring up a child yourself (or get yourself nephews or
nieces -- much more convenient) and (b) read a book? It's probably the
one field of language study on which dozens of books are available
directed to non-linguists, because just about everyone wants to know if
their kid is "normal."

But your Gedankenexperiment is simply absurd. A human cannot learn
vocabulary without grammar, or vice versa.

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