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Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot!
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― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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One of the primary jobs for a baby during the first months of learning is to build what we call a sound inventory of the language to which he or she is exposed.
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― The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
― The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
