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The Evolution of Grammar
Pauline Pahn: Your passion for grammar has changed over the years. How did that happen? I was a beginning professor, still, already doing well in the linguistics department at USC. We discovered adults go through a predictable order of acquisition; we knew kids did it but not adults. She says her student's conscious knowledge of language allowed her to self-correct.