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like "Want cookie" Or "Milk spill"
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and the function morphemes, the little words,
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"In," "Of," "A," "The," and so on
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start to gradually appear.
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Then the--Then there's the bad news.
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Around seven years of age going up through puberty,
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the ability to learn language starts to go away.
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The best work on this has been done
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by Elissa Newport and Sam Supalla
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who have studied people
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who have been in the United States
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for many, many years like 30, 40 years