Re: THEORY: Question about the evolution of language
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 9, 1999, 6:06 |
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Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Hese Kiel wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
>
My parents told me that I was also an early talker and early walker
(and early reader, I could spell words at 4 and learned to read not long
after that). Who knows, maybe it's a genetic feature of conlangers :) !
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