Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rochester!gary From: gary@rochester.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Creole grammars and contrived languages Message-ID: <2343@rochester.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 12:36:38 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2343 Posted: Thu Jul 21 12:36:38 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 20:03:13 EDT References: <1804@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 9 This sounds like a very weird experiment: are you going to force little kids to learn artificial languages? A better approach would be to grade the current natural languages against the supposed "innate" SVO grammar and see how hard it is for kids to learn non- SVO languages: comparative psycholinguistics. This sounds like it must have been done. Does anyone have any pointers to such comparisons? /gary cottrell (allegra or seismo)!rochester!gary