2006-11-05 03:07:07 · 4 answers · asked by winston 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
No we learn it !!
2006-11-05 03:08:35 · answer #1 · answered by IloveMarmite 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, we seem to have pre-wired grammar rules. No doubt you have heard a young child say something like "I taked the doll" or "Mommy buyed me an icecream". That sure is not something they ever heard anyone say... it proves the kid somehow has pre-wired grammar rules and uses them, not (yet) knowing the exceptions, let alone have any image or understandig of what grammar is. Young kids do this in every language. Isn't that amazing?
Greetings from Holland!
2006-11-05 22:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by icqanne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is something pre wired which makes common themes link throughout humanity. In an experiment in the 80's a Japanese teacher gave english children 3 ryhmes to learn, one was a mixture of japanese words that made no sense at all, one was a new ryhme that he created and one was a classic japanese childrens ryhme that was hundreds of years old.
Without fail every english child found the classic japanese ryhme easier to learn.
There is something in our brains, we are linked and we dont know how.
2006-11-05 11:13:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not the languages themsleves, but the ability to learn one or more languages by the end of early childhood.
2006-11-05 14:23:49 · answer #4 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋