Re: How to prime kids to learn 3+ languages?

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:20:37 -0700, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Linguistic anthropologists have described cultures in which no
particular linguistic attention is paid to infants -- no "baby talk," no
"motherese," no special praise for one's first words or first sentence
-- and the kids master their language anyway. IIRC they were in
Melanesia.

Barbara Lust in _Child Language: Acquisition and Growth_ (Cambridge red
series) mentions Guatemala.


BTW, on page 10 she writes, 'About mid-century, the linguist De Saussure,
sought to separate "from the whole of the speech the part that belongs
to language" (1959, 11).'


Artur
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without saying in so many words: You stupid fucking morons,
you're learning fucking elf languages!
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