Re: unnatural languages

On Mar 1, 7:34 am, "Andrew Woode" <andrew_wo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1 Mar, 00:32, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 28, 12:47 pm, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

First, you suggested two people
were enough for a community.

Two people certainly isn't enough for an infant to acquire a language!

Go learn some psycholinguistics.

So what about people who grow up in one speech community, but acquire
another language from immigrant parents (sometimes just one parent, in
a linguistically mixed marriage?), with minimal reinforcement from
other speakers?. Is their speech automatically deficient?

I don't recall ever coming across a description of such a situation in
the literature.

.

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