multilingual babies

[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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