Quotes by Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World

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So is language change progress or degeneration? It is neither, of course. To assert that language change is for the bett — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
The true structure of the Welsh grammar will be revealed only when we look at sentences slightly more complicated than i — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
Universal grammar is about what language is: it is to be distinguished from prescriptive grammars, often distilled in ne — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
Now we have come full circle to the subtitle of this book: children learn by unlearning other languages. Viewed in the D — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
Is language actually getting better, shorter, and easier? Nowadays we often hear exactly the opposite. Teenager slang is — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
Language guardians have often blamed linguists as defenders of bad language: moral and cultural relativism is often toss — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
Language is what we use to tell stories, transmit knowledge, and build social bonds. It comforts, tickles, excites, and — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
Chromosomes. Sex. Grasshoppers. "Pick me up, Mommy."This is an odd list, except in the eye of evolution. For in the majo — Charles Yang, The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World