Re: CHAT: Parallelism

> As for adults: the late Benedict (of Austronesian and Sino-Tibetan fame)
> could memorize a wordlist with a single scan, while still playing the
> psycho-therapist to a patient. George van Driem doesn't have to
> do more than hear or read a word once. I need about a week for a word
> to sink in, with daily repetition, but I can easily do a few hundred
> in a week simultaneously. Phrases are easier, though!
Are these cognate words, or are you linguists really extraterrestrials?
I suppose it is possible I am just lazy ...

> References
>
> Elliot, Alison. 1981. _Child Language_. Cambridge
>
> Gleitman, Lila and Barbara Landau, eds. 1994. _The
> Acquisition of the Lexicon_. Cambridge (Massachusets).
The extreme conlang example, of course, would be Classical
Yiklamu, which directly relexed the WordNet dictionary.

http://www36.pair.com/waldzell/mpl/yiklamu/index.html

... versus several candidates for minimal. Originally,
Esperanto had under 1000 roots; and "aUI" had around 30.