First language acquisition — the process by which young children learn their mother tongue — is not driven by explicitly-taught grammar rules, but by exposure to adults and older children and their speech patterns.
By the time children reach “grammar school”, the ones who have already started to learn the local prestige dialect have an advantage over those who have been learning basilect instead.
First language acquisition — the process by which young children learn their mother tongue — is not driven by explicitly-taught grammar rules, but by exposure to adults and older children and their speech patterns.
By the time children reach “grammar school”, the ones who have already started to learn the local prestige dialect have an advantage over those who have been learning basilect instead.