Children know more grammar than we teach them. Is grammar innate? No, brains just invent one, adjusted for what they observe in others.
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@drehumdiebolzen The invented grammars are often identical, but independently invented. We only communicate constraints.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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@drehumdiebolzen However, the space of possible grammars is limited, and polyglots can quickly exhaust it, so new languages become easy
10:09 PM - 14 Jan 2016
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