Quotes:
"He does so because the faculty of language is part of human nature, inscribed in man’s physical being, as it were, and almost independent of environment." (Dalrymple "The Gift of Language")
-I think this quote will be useful simply because it can easily be debatable because he is saying that language can be solely learned from just environment.
"Children will learn their native language adequately whatever anyone does, and the attempt to teach them language is fraught with psychological perils. For example, to “correct” the way a child speaks is potentially to give him what used to be called an inferiority complex. Moreover, when schools undertake such correction, they risk dividing the child from his parents and social milieu, for he will speak in one way and live in another, creating hostility and possibly rejection all around him. But happily, since every child is a linguistic genius, there is no need to do any such thing. Every child will have the linguistic equipment he needs, merely by virtue of growing older." (Dalrymple "The Gift of Language")
- This quote is saying that a child learns his language as he goes on in life. And if we were to change what he knows then that would be like taking him away from what he learned growing up and was born with. I could use this in my paper as if it were biological and cultural based on the fact that he is learning the language that he was raised up on but also that could be his culture.
"I find it difficult to believe that this is entirely a coincidence and that imitation has nothing to do with it. Moreover, it is a sociological truism that children tend to speak not merely the language but the dialect of their parents." (Dalrymple "The Gift of Language")
- This is saying that the child is speaking what he has heard all his/her life from listening to parents. Basically I could argue from what I just said above on the last quote.
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