>>CB: This is an interesting puzzle, although Language learners may have
limited access to some such ungrammatical expressions when they
mistakenly say them themselves. Perhaps it is a matter in part of a
very high skill at learning from mistakes, trial and error and ability
to generalize the lesso
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On 9 Jun 2010, at 07:44, CeJ wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627621.000-language-lessons-you-are-what-you-speak.html?full=true
>
> Language lessons: You are what you speak
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> excerpt:
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> LANGUAGES are wonderfully idiosyncratic. En
Speakers proficient in a language know what expressions are acceptable
in their language and what expressions are unacceptable. The key
puzzle is how speakers should come to know the restrictions of their
language, since expressions that violate those restrictions are not
present in the input, indi
