On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:42:18 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:
>Dave Smith writes:
>
>> It is a well established fact that there are critical periods for language
>> acquisition and that people who are taught a second or third language in
>> their youth often pick them up without any accent.
>
>Nope, that's just the problem: This is not an established fact at all, but
>merely a bit of religious doctrine in linguistics. People always have taken
>for granted that it is true, and thus no one has sought to prove it (or
>succeeded in doing so).
Awsome! Is there no subject for which you are not more expert
than the acknowledged experts??
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