[Xmca-l] Re: no primitive language?
Andy Blunden
ablunden@mira.net
Sat Dec 27 02:14:36 PST 2014
Thanks, Carol. :)
I am OK from here then.
Much appreciated.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
Carol Macdonald wrote:
> Syntax, semantics. pragmatics, phonology, discourse orientation: they
> just give their own version of these aspects.
>
> On 27 December 2014 at 12:10, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Carol.
> Can those "key characteristics" be given in a few lines?
> Andy
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> *Andy Blunden*
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> Carol Macdonald wrote:
>
> Andy
>
> It's true. Languages all share key characteristics.
>
> Carol
>
> On 27 December 2014 at 12:02, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>> wrote:
>
> I have heard, and I believe it to be the case, that there
> is no
> such thing as a "primitive language."
> I am not talking about the "language" of children raised in
> isolation, or the "home sign" of deaf children, I mean
> among the
> languages of actual historical peoples.
> I would just appreciate that if this is wrong, could
> someone on
> this list who knows about this kind of thing disabuse me.
> Otherwise I will assume this to be factual.
>
> Thanks
> Andy
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> Carol A Macdonald Ph D (Edin)
> Developmental psycholinguist
> Academic, Researcher, and Editor Honorary Research Fellow:
> Department of Linguistics, Unisa
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> Carol A Macdonald Ph D (Edin)
> Developmental psycholinguist
> Academic, Researcher, and Editor
> Honorary Research Fellow: Department of Linguistics, Unisa
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