morning note
Children are full of surprises and science cannot fully determine what biologically innate or socio-environmental factors would make our children speak. Without going into depth on the theories behind this (those interested, let me know), I just want to quote one footnote regarding an eleven month old child as part of a research on bilingual children learning LSQ (Language des Signes Quebecoise) sign language since their parents are deaf and also learning French:
"we were quite struck by one eleven month old LSQ-French infant who turned to the right and signed 'hat' to mother (who was about to put on the infants winter hat) and then turned to the left and said 'chapeau' (hat) to the nearby French-speaking experimenter." (Petitto et al., 2001)
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