Linguistics 1

Grammar is actually a much more complex phenomenon than anything that could ever be taught in school, but nevertheless every human being masters the grammar of some language.

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0. The more time parents spend teaching their children a language, the better their children will speak.

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0. Some languages structure sentences by putting the object first and the subject last.

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1. Some aspects of language appear to be innate.

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Correct spelling preserves a language.

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0. There are specific structures in your brain that process language.

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0. Some languages, such as Turkish, have special verb forms used for gossip and hearsay.

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0. Many of the sentences that you hear and utter are novel; they have never been uttered before.

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0. There are more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world, but 90% of the population speaks only 10% of them.

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Women tend to talk more than men.

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