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In article <9188-457B1466-830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Penguins Are <penguinsare@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
Are you sure about this? If one tries to routinely memorize,
this may be the case, but if one looks at structure, words
become easier to learn, and a word just seen may even "sink in"
without memorization effort.
>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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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558
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