Re: First language acquisition


noesy_parker wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1157755245.936161.125410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


A human cannot learn
vocabulary without grammar, or vice versa.


Where is the grammar in a baby's "dada" or "mama"?

For how many days (or hours) is a baby's (other than Maggie Simpson)
speech limited to single-word utterances?

The first time baby utters "dada" or "mama," is it uttering a word, or
did it happen to babble a sequence of syllables that provoked an
adoring reaction in the hearer, i.e. a very basic Skinnerian
interaction, very soon transcended by the actual operation of the LAD
(whatever that may be)?

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