On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:46:17 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:
>Hatunen writes:
>
> I think it was Pinker who pointed out that Henry Kissinger and
>> his younger brother came to the USA together when they were mere
>> lads. Henry was a bit over the age of easy language acquisition
>> and we all know how thick his accent is. But apparently his
>> brother speaks English with no accent at all (yeah, Mx, I know
>> that's anecdotal).
>
>There is no magic age. I think you'll find many differences between the
>brothers, but nobody tries to say that all the differences are due to age.
To estalish the principle we need only know it happens at some
age....
YMMV
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