Going Native, Chapter 16: The Penalty of Adam - Part II

For an adult, the most difficult step in the study of language is the first step. For a baby, it’s entirely inconsequential

Previously: Going Native, Chapter 16: The Penalty of Adam - Part I

So this is the final part of Going Native as I left it back in 2004. Thank you for staying with it this long and I hope you’ve enjoyed it. It’s been an interesting experience for me too, rereading this as I wrote it two decades ago and barely looked at since then - the three-year-old I me…