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Language Patterns Are Roller-coaster Ride During Childhood Development
February 24, 2011
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Why, and when, do we learn to speak the way we do? Research from North Carolina State University on African-American children presents an unexpected finding: Language use can go on a roller-coaster ride during childhood as kids adopt and abandon vernacular language patterns.
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