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What does the Genie case tell us about how children learn language?
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What does the Genie case tell us about how children learn language? Discovering how children leant to speak has been a highly controversial and discussed topic amongst language scholars. Normal children learn language through many different ways. There are several stages each child will go through. The first is the proto-words stage. This is where babies will babble. They enjoy the sound of their voice. This takes place between 0-6 months old. Between 7-12 months a baby begins to understand simple words from its mother. It will respond to these using simple hand movements and gestures. By 12 months old the child will have reached the linguistic period and should be able to say a few simple words, like dada or mama. By 24 months the child will be saying `noun phrases' and may be under or over extending words. Between 3-4 years the child will be able to...
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