Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
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Language Acquisition in Infants and Adults
In chinese infants, long before they can do labial ofricaties and do ba or ba, they get the tone correct speech of pathologists. And for the state department an te intelligence agencies, the medium age for beginning chinese nis 35 or 36. For vocabulary, there is no critical period. We learn new words all our lives,. including names for people places. Syntax may be in one of these interminable cycles of revision and review. Doinge bargaining with journal referees to please publish our paper.
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