[lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jun 12 12:15:28 PDT 2009


"Isn't the fundamental assumption here that kids learn to speak in grammatically correct sentences?"

Yes, you might fault that, but children make grammatical mistakes by misapplying grammatical rules. My daughter explained to me the other day that she pulled her ice cream away from a pigeon because he "mightened of eatened it". She was misapplying a rule of tense, adding too many endings.



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