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Re:Bilingualism makes the mind sharper (and helps forestall ... by wccrawford on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @12:26PM (#2603210)
Especially since I don't think we were taught grammar until we were 8-10, where I'm from. At that age, I couldn't have possibly answered that question because I wouldn't know what grammar is.

I suspect that they didn't use the word grammar, but somehow got around it, asking if the sentence was correctly formed or something.

Of course, it's also possible that having parents teach you 2 languages practically forces them to teach about grammar early on, so they had an unfair advantage.

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Re:Bilingualism makes the mind sharper (and helps forestall ... by ma2rten on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @02:29PM (#2603812)
Generally parents don't teach their children about grammar when they bring them up bilingually. One parent just talks in one language to the child and the other parent in the other language. At least that was the case for me.

But I can very well image, that you gain a better understanding of grammar, when you speak two languages, almost by definition. This trick is also used in Natural Language Processing to improve part-of-speech tagging.

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