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Babies are the hardest workers ever, wrapping their brain around all the syntax, phonemes and whatnot of language.
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True, but much of what might be called the patterns of language are hardwired into babies. The difficulties they tend to face come in where language has evolved away from the instinctive patterns. So, irregular verbs tend to cause children difficulty in all languages. Similar mistakes are noticed in children from different backgrounds and different languages. The English version being such mistakes as "I falled" instead of " I fell".