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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">I am interested in what
these children's accent was like in the language that 'suddenly
switched on'. Do they need to have produced it to sound
initially like a native speaker? One child I know also refused
to speak English, though she was spoken to exclusively in
English by her father who was the main carer from 1;0 - 3;0. But
the family lives in Germany, the mother spoke German to the
child, the child went to German daycare and both parents are
almost native speakers in both languages. She understood
English perfectly but only started to be willing to speak it
around the age of 5 or 6 - and she had, and to some extent still
has, a German accent in English<br>
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elena lieven</span></font>
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