[xmca] Deb Roy

["James P. Lantolf" <jpl7@psu.edu>]

Just a clarification: The point I wanted to make was that focusing only 
on phonology is telling just a small part of the story of language 
acquisition. I agree that there could not have been a concept present in 
the child's mind at the start of the process, but for researchers from 
the Chomsky perspective the child does have the concept water, even if 
it is pronounced ga-ga (Managua Lectures) because it is innately 
specified and therefore learning the phonology (and of course syntax) is 
all the child needs to learn.

jim

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