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We Heard Instances Of The Full Form And The Reduced Form

But We All Know Subconsciously Not To Use The Reduced Form Here. How Did We Come To This? The Question Arises Because The Eventual Knowledge Is Richer Than Relevant Experience. As Children

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For Example

Certain Instances Of His Never Reduce

Our Capacity Goes Well Beyond What We Have Experienced. Consider Some Subtleties That People Are Not Consciously Aware Of. The Verb May Be Used In Its Full Form Or Its Reduced Form: People Say Kim Is Happy Or Kim’s Happy. However

In Maturity

And There Is More To It Than The Simple Transmission Of A Set Of Words And Sentences From One Generation Of Speakers To The Next. There Is More To It Than A Reproduction Of Experience And

To Language Acquisition Than Mimicking What We Hear In Childhood

Much More

On The Basis Of Very Little Experience. So There Is More

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We Shall See: They Attain A Productive System

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Literary Criticism