I don't exactly have the same reaction, but I have some things to add to the following exchange.
On 10/23/06, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matt Mahoney wrote: > Children also learn language as a progression toward increasingly complex patterns. > - phonemes beginning at 2-4 weeks > - phonological rules for segmenting continuous speech at 7-10 months [1] > - words (semantics) beginning at 12 months > - simple sentences (syntax) at 2-3 years > - compound sentences around 5-6 years ARRrrrrgggghhhh! Please don't do this. My son (like many other kids) had finished about fifty small books by the time he was 5, and at least one of the Harry Potter books when he was 6. You are talking about these issues at a pre-undergraduate level of comprehension.
Anecdotal evidence is always bad, but I will note that I myself was reading Tolkein(badly) by 1st grade, and when I was five was scared badly by a cold war children's book "Nobody wants a Nuclear War". There are also other problems with neat progressions like this. One glaring one is that much younger children can learn sign language(which is physically much easier) and communicate fairly complicated concepts far in advance of speech, so much so that many parent courses now suggest and support learning and teaching baby sign language so as to be able to communicate desires, needs, and explanations with the child much earlier. -- Justin Corwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://outlawpoet.blogspot.com http://www.adaptiveai.com ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
