Richard,

I cannot say that I have not been warned about your warm and kind personality and about your forgiving nature. Here is a sample of such warnings:

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I will take the warnings very seriously, Mister Hyde.

Eduard

----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Veit <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010 8:24
Subject: Re: how heavy a lift is grammar
To: [log in to unmask]

> 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.
>
> Dick
>
> Richard,
>
> I am not often redundant, but allow me the luxury this time: You
> are a piece
> of CRAP.
>
> Eduard
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Craig Hancock
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >  Dick,
> >    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.
> >    Tomasello suggests "intention reading" and
> "pattern finding" as central.
> > Bybee mentions "chunking" quite often. We can'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't more five year
> olds win Pulitzer
> > Prizes? (I don'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.)
> >    I just question the assumption--I don'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.
> >
> > Craig
> >
>
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