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Subject: 'Private languages' in children?
Question:
From time to time one hears of close siblings, twins perhaps, inventing their own language. If this is actually true, and assuming anyone has looked into this, are these actual languages with grammars, however rudimentary? Or are they simply the children's native tongue, with invented words substituted for the regular ones? Or something else entirely?

Thanks in advance for your time.

From: cary kittrell
Date: Sep-29-2009
Replies:
  1. Re: 'Private languages' in children? Nancy J. Frishberg   (Oct-01-2009)
  2. Re: 'Private languages' in children? Charley Rowe   (Oct-01-2009)
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