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Subject: Re: Language Learning (anecdotes)
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Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 22:10:41 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 22:10:41 1987
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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.