They speak in coherent structures, regardless of whether or not they correspond to proper grammar. E.g. they don't say "Car going drive to movies I to am." Otherwise you couldn't understand them.
--- On Fri, 6/12/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
> Isn't the fundamental assumption here that kids learn to
> speak in
> grammatically correct sentences? Half of the college
> students I've taught
> at Research I and II universities - and more at the second
> tier small
> college I taught at, don't speak or write in grammatically
> correct
> sentences... is this a problem for the theory? Or is
> it enough that short,
> declarative sentences that express generally pretty
> simplistic thoughts are
> grammatical? Obviously, I don't know enough about
> this... and the little I
> am learning bugs me.
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