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Johanna Rubba <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:41:15 -0700
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Thanks to Herb for his correction on the learning of 
morphosyntactically complex languages. I'm grateful for the correction 
of "popular linguistics wisdom". I love the idea of adults and elders 
cultivating the language through explicit teaching, which is not needed 
for less-complex languages. As to contacts with other languages, I know 
this is extremely common in many, many societies (which are 
multilingual), but I had in mind a monolingual culture. As I recall, 
recent research has shown that children growing up multilingual do 
learn and store their languages slightly differently from monolinguals.

I've been wanting to read McWhorter's book for a long time. This is the 
second time it has come up for me in a week, so maybe the cosmic 
message is that it's time.

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Department
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Tel.: 805.756.2184
Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596
Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374
URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba

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