Ever Student
Senior Member
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2008
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- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Persian
- Home Country
- Iran
- Current Location
- Iran
Hello All,
As we know children are good at copying the deep or meaning srtucture of a sentence or message and they do not imitate the surface one. I would like to know about an eight-year-old child who mimics the conversations whilst watching a movie in another language. Does she understand what the artists say? If she doesn't so, why today researchers believe that children do not copy of the surface structure? How can she distinguish the sounds produced by someone else in a foreign language?
I would appreciate it if anyone can help me out!
As we know children are good at copying the deep or meaning srtucture of a sentence or message and they do not imitate the surface one. I would like to know about an eight-year-old child who mimics the conversations whilst watching a movie in another language. Does she understand what the artists say? If she doesn't so, why today researchers believe that children do not copy of the surface structure? How can she distinguish the sounds produced by someone else in a foreign language?
I would appreciate it if anyone can help me out!