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Re: How does a baby learn language, when learning requires concentration

Subject: Re: How does a baby learn language, when learning requires concentration
From: "ernobe"
Date: 9 Dec 2006 13:28:40 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Penguins Are wrote:
> I still didn't get an answer that makes any sense to me.
>
>
> Concentration is required to memorize-focus.  Then how does the baby
> learn words and basic grammer by age three when they are too young to
> focus narrowly?
>
> How do they get all the words when adults studying  a foreign language
> must go over and over vocabulary lists to remember anything?
>
> This seems to me a reasonable question.  It's not to play with the list,
> as some insulting person wrote when I posted it before, and nobody is
> selling anything.

The answer is that babies don't have the mental capacity to form
judgements about the value of grammar.      When adults realize that it
is confusing and basically useless, language learning becomes a painful
process to them.


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