Latin as an Acquired Language
Carin Ruff
In the case of Latin, characteristically medieval situation language acquisition comes about at point where one can say that all Europe stands a sufficient temporal, geographic, and cultural remove from which anyone who wishes to use must acquire through study. The distancing Latin be detected in attitudes compilers commentators mediated grammatical literature antiquity audiences. grammars teachers students used their project acquiring were originally written induce native speakers conscious awareness analytical categories for describing own language. extent distance between spoken forms has been topic controversy among scholars development Romance languages literacy. Any appraisal Latin-acquisition process communities encountered afresh with conversion Christianity is some complicated.
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