multilingual babies

[Bruno Estigarribia]

Of course, I misspelled Mark's last name *sigh*, it's "Liberman".
Apologies.
Bruno
> I thought briefly about opening a new thread for this, but I think it
> would be overkill.
> See Mark Lieberman's post today on language log about multilingualism
> and Alzheimer's. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3175
> In the end, as many have said, for all the ways in which language is a
> formal construct, language is also functional. If you live in a
> multilingual environment, what are you going to do? The question is
> almost moot.
> Bruno Estigarribia
> UNC Chapel Hill
>
> On May 9, 11:20 am, Miquel Serra<miquel.se... at ub.edu>  wrote:
>> Dear Parisa
>> Bilingulism is both, a situation to which a family has to (functionally)
>> adapt and a project for the children to fullfill. It is not (only) a
>> desire of parents or politicians (and academics).
>> Adaptation depends on many factors  and circumstances. And a project  
>> depends on long distance goals and means for them. If one is fucntional
>> and has clear goals, there is no problem. But it is more important for
>> the children to admire a culture than to be pressed to learn a distant
>> language.
>> Miquel Serra
>> U Barcelona, Catalonia

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