Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!ames!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: How fast can one learn a language? (Re: IQ is not static ...) Message-ID: <4552@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 12 Aug 89 10:57:13 GMT References: <3800@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 12 From article <3800@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, by markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins): \... \ How fast can a human being master the basic essentials of a human language? About 4 years of relatively single-minded effort. \... I believe that it is possible to accquire ..., and basic syntax in 1 day. Wow. How did you get it so wrong? I wonder what you mean by "basic essentials". How to name? How to predicate? Modify? Quantify? Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu