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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: "Peter T. Daniels"
Date: 9 Dec 2006 14:47:01 -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.

You are making either one or two incorrect assumptions.

Perhaps it is the case that concentration is not required to
memorize-focus.

Or perhaps it is the case that language acquisition does not involve
memorize-focusing.

(Besides, the verb "to memorize-focus" is unknown to me.)

> 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.


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