Thanks, Craig, for your thoughtful response. It contrasts sharply with the message I received from Mr. Hanganu (below). It was off-list, but members should know what to expect if they reply to him.<br><br>Dick<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Richard,</div>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am not often redundant, but allow me the luxury this time: You are a piece of CRAP.</div>
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</font><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div>Eduard </div></div><font color="#888888">
</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Craig Hancock <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?LOGON=A3%3Dind1009%26L%3DATEG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D1821921%26B%3D--00c09f972a7d52303904910135b4%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">



  

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Dick,<br>
   I agree very much that we have to locate abilities within the child
that account for the acquisition of language. The difference of opinion
seems to be whether these are peculiar to language or whether the child
can acquire language using normal (domain general) cognitive processes.
Either way, it is a remarkable task.<br>
   Tomasello suggests &quot;intention reading&quot; and &quot;pattern finding&quot; as
central. Bybee mentions &quot;chunking&quot; quite often. We can&#39;t learn language
without accepting the existence of other minds. And what we might be
picking up might be something more than a formal system--form/meaning
pairings, which allow us to interact with each other and construe the
world in uniquely human ways. How do we account for the ability to
construct texts, which some of us learn to do well and others seem to
do poorly? Is that a language acquisition process as well? Why don&#39;t
more five year olds win Pulitzer Prizes? (I don&#39;t mean that at all
sarcastically. I just want to posit the possibility that a lot more
than additional vocabulary and Standard English correction is ahead of
the child entering school.) <br>
   I just question the assumption--I don&#39;t mean that all generativists
believe that--that literacy is just something that happens more or less
according to a biological program given a fairly routine language
environment. <br>
<br>
Craig<br></div></blockquote></div><br>
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