Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 8, 1999, 11:08 |
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Hese Kiel wrote:
> mostly those twins who are using their own language are talking to each
> other because there's not enough contact to outsiders (grownup) to give
> twins input.
That's probably why ours never had a twin language: everybody was
always talking to them, parents, other adults, toddler sister,
teenage babysitters... They learned to talk a bit earlier than
average, not (as seems to be usual for twins) later, but that may be
family culture: we're all talkers. Their sister could speak in
two-word sentences and keep up a reasonably logical discourse at
fourteen months, the twins at about twenty months.
Irina
Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
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