Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utai!murrayw From: murrayw@utai.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.lang Subject: Re: Language Learning (anecdotes) Message-ID: <4174@utai.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 22:10:41 EST Article-I.D.: utai.4174 Posted: Sat Dec 5 22:10:41 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 04:38:56 EST References: <1966@uwmacc.UUCP> <12400009@iuvax> <1117@uhccux.UUCP> <2048@uwmacc.UUCP> <435@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: murrayw@ai.UUCP (Murray Watt) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 20 Xref: utgpu comp.ai:1127 sci.lang:1657 Summary: In article <435@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >Maybe it's my ignorance showing, but everyone seems to be asking the ^^^^^^^^^ Possibly, your correct. >is false: children do NOT learn to speak the same language as their ^^^^ Not 100% the same >(I *still* don't know what "twenty-three skidoo" meant), but I quite >certainly haven't got the same accent as my parents, and in my own Why then can different regional accents in North America be traced to different groups of immigrants??? If your parents are new immigrants then you might not have thier accent. Instead you have the accent of your teachers, your freinds' parents, and your favorite television character. >rush to assume that children have some magical skill lost to adults. This was not a "rushed" conclusion and no one thinks it is a "magical" skill. Murray I wouldn't believe in magical skills either.