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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mike Morgan</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:mwmosaka@gmail.com">mwmosaka@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Grammar" 2009.01.05 (06) [E]</span><br>
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As for Luc's reference to a (single person's) claim that<br>
Turkish-background students have a harder time understanding 3-D<br>
geometry and topology, I THINK maybe -- based on my experiecnes<br>
teaching Turkish speakers (and Kurdish bilinguals), Japanese speakers,<br>
Japanese signers and Indian signers, that the claim may be a mistaken<br>
conclusion based on real evidence...<br>
<br>
That is, IF you give a Japanese/Turkish/Japanese Deaf/Indian Deaf the<br>
English sentence "The table is in front of the chir" then they are<br>
liley as not to misconstrue it and give the opposite reading.<br>
(Similarly with causals like because).<br>
<br>
However, this is because they have not fully grasped the nature of<br>
ENGLISH GRAMMAR (the trully strange fact that we tell you "look<br>
behind" BEFORE we tell you "behind WHERE?"), NOT that they
haven't<br>
ghgraspoed the multidimensioned nature of the physical universe.</span></p>
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> I was once told that students with a Turkish background had greater<br>
> difficulty grasping 3D-geometry and topology, because Turkish has no<br>
> separate prepositions and rather builds constructions at the back of words<br>
> like suffixes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">PS ALL the
above languages woudl be of the form: CHAIR ITS-IN-FRONT<br>
TABLE IS .. which, suffciently given poor langaueg instruction and<br>
exposure, WE too might misconstrue.<br>
<br>
Mike || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">マイク</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">माईक</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">|| Мика || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Shruti;" lang="GU">માઈક</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="GU"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">|| </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Sylfaen;">მაიქ</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> || </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Raavi;" lang="PA">ਮਾਈਕ</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
</span><span dir="rtl" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HE">מייק</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>
|| </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Latha;" lang="TA">மாஇக்</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="TA"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">|| Miqueu || U C > || <span dir="rtl" lang="AR-SA">ما یک</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span> || Mihangel<br>
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Dr Michael W Morgan<br>
Managing Director Ishara Foundation Mumbai (Bombay), India<br>
++++++++++++++++<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">माईकल</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">मोर्गन</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">पी</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">एच</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">डी</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">.) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">मेनेजिंग</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">डॉयरेक्टर</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">ईशारा</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">फॉउंडेशन</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">मुंबई</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> )</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
++++++++++++++++<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">茂流岸マイク</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">言語学博士</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">イシャラ基金の務理事</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "MS Mincho";" lang="ZH-CN">・</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">事務局</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">長</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="ZH-CN"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">ムンバイ</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">ボンベイ</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: SimSun;" lang="ZH-CN">、インド</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br style="">
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