Re: Spanish & Portuguese

> [Gerry]:
> > Then Alexander, do you think these young babies have a template in their

head

> which maps out the syntax of their language?
> > I'm beginning to think they might.
>
> Alexander: I think it could be so. We know that language plays an
> important role in the thinking process, and in emergence of
> associations.
> We can suppose that such a "template" is created during the recognition
> (learning) of the native language in form of a special neuron
> constellations pattern, by analogy with the complex conditioned reflexes
> forming or the establishment of not-inborn dynamical stereotypes like
> ability to use a fork (chopsticks) or to play a piano. The syntax is an
> organic part of the speach, so it should be imprinted as strongly as
> basic lexicon, I think.
> Every next learnt language can produce its own neuron associative
> connections but the virginity (of the brain) is already lost ...
>
> Gerry: Hi Alexander. QUESTION: When do you think this template is
> created?

A neurologist should be asked (I'm just a specialist in physiology of blood,
sorry). I can guess that such a template (or at least its basis) is to be formed
by the term, when a baby starts to speak, i.e. about 2 years age.
The cruel experiments of the nature (when children are brought up by animals)
show that if kids are not taught to speak by the age of several years (can't say
more precise now) they will not speak ever. The central nervous system is open
for different kinds of "programming" during certain time intervals, then it
becomes "stiff". If a function is not formed by the proper time it will not be
realized in the full volume.

Alexander