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From: gary@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Creole grammars and contrived languages
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Date: Thu, 21-Jul-83 12:36:38 EDT
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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