Naturally, it’s not just English. While the developmental stages look different from language to language, every language has a particular developmental order, which children and second language learners alike will inevitably follow on their way to fluency. The most plausible explanation for these rigid, unavoidable developmental stages is this: our language machines never turn off. When we learn a second language, we develop like children because we learn like children. If we feed our language machines enough comprehensible input, then we will automatically learn our new language’s grammar,
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