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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: What's innate? (Was Re: Artificial Neural Networks and Cognition
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In article <3g42bk$jco@agate.berkeley.edu> <jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> writes:
>curry@hpl.hp.com (Bo Curry) wrote:
>
>> A simple comparison
>> of the ease with which children learn language with their
>> difficulties learning arithmetic
>
>I'm sorry, but this sort of comparison is the sort of
>careless argument I've come to expect from supporters of
>the Chomskyan position.  Clearly the way in which children
>learn the two skills cannot be ignored.  My cousin in
>Paraguay is learning both English and arithmetic in school,
>and though it is hard to compare such dissimilar activities,
>since you've already done so I'll say that there is very little
>evidence that she's finding her English classes easier than
>her arithmetic classes.

How old is she?  How hard is she finding learning English as
compared to learning her first language?



