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My theory is strengthened
When I was doing my MA, I noticed that linguists only seem to have children in order to study language acquisition, language change and so on.
The Zwickys are examining their daughter’s inflectional morphology here.
Fascinating, but if Opal’s version became popular, how would we say peoples as in nations or races? Peoples or peopleses? Maybe we could use the then obsolete person or persons.
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Monday 28th January, 2008 ~ 1.40pm GMT
[...] a twist on my original theory, but it can still be classed as evidence in favour of the argument that linguists view children as [...]