Re: If you need comprehensible input, how do children start talking when t


Penguins Are wrote:
> If you need comprehensible input, how do children start talking when
> they are less than three or four year of age?
>
> Everything is incomprehensible initially, right? So why do adults need
> for it to be comprehensible?
> Won't they just implicitly assilmilate it bit by bit given suffient
> unexplained exposure?

It is possible to acquire a second native language only
before some point in the development process of the
brain. It is said that after puberty this is impossible
due to a lack of cortex plasticity.

IMHO beyond that point it is probable that the acquisition
of a second language relies on the structure of the
native language and that the capacity to learn from
scratch is lost.

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