Jay-- Your wrote the following with respect to language, but it strikes
me as true about development in any domain of human life.
mike
---- Also called into question were linearized models of development, or learning through stages. What seemed much more realistic was that (a) people at any given time have speech repertories that are heterochronous in the sense that practices and forms considered typical of many earlier and later 'stages' co-exist and interact and are differentially produced in different contexts, and (b) that development is not only 'uneven' but proceeds at multiple rates simultaneously in regard to different practices, even anticipating future stages that should not yet be possible.be possible.
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