Re: Do children learn language more easily?


Nathan Sanders wrote:
In article <17777.16887.298469.280604@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ar an chéad lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Nathan Sanders:

> [...] The quoted portion was long enough for me to realize that
> Mr. Rosenfelder has less knowledge about language acquisition than I do,
> and certainly less than the people who do actual research in the field,
> whose articles and books I'm quite sure would be more fulfilling,
> enlightening, and factual than anything of Mr. Rosenfelder's opinions.

He reference eight papers and books in it, most of them from established
figures in the linguistics community.

Sounds like I should just skip his opinions about those references and
read them directly, so that I can see what they actually said.
Specialists have enough trouble deciphering what their colleagues
write; laymen are far worse.

Eight more than you do.

sci.lang is not an appropriate forum for publishing formal research

Ya wanna try convincing Franz of that?

.

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