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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: What's innate? (Was Re: Artificial Neural Networks and Cognition
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 22:36:02 GMT
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In article <3fjlng$p9m@mp.cs.niu.edu>, Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>In <3fjih8$c9a@news.panix.com> Clay Thurmond <claytex@panix.com> writes:
>>The question brought up by this experiment is how is it that
>>children correctly convert complex sentences like "The doggie
>>that is eating the flower is in the garden" to questions.
>
>Perhaps they do that correctly because they are all taught to do so
>in school.  The pre-school child is unlikely to have any need to
>convert such sentences.

Children are generally using subordinated clauses at around three years of
age; Pinker gives some examples.
