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How Children Learn to Speak
The ancient greek historian herodus recorded what is probably the first language experiment performed in antiquity. A pharaoh set out to prove the superiority of his people by showing that the egyptian language would emerge spontaneously from babies who were kept away from any type of language exposure. The exact age when babies start saying words can vary quite a bit, but the stages of sentence acquisition they go through are pretty much the same.
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