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Does a child know grammar and vocabulary? Understanding and producing the sounds of a language seem to be the elementary units.



A child knows grammar and vocabulary, most often by being taught explicitly. Yes they pick up stuff, but they are corrected all the time.

And children don't have the level of language skill you normally want to achieve.




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