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From: Judy Kuster
Date: 04 Oct 2011
Time: 11:20:36 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.177.225
In your research, did you come across any information ranking assumed "difficulty" of various languages in the production of phonemes, morphemes, semantics, syntax, and prosody? I believe the grammar of Icelandic for example is very complicated and even professionals are prone to make grammatical errors. And English grammar is much more complicated than Spanish. The tonal languages would seem to me to be an added complication in learning those languages. Also, in languages like German you often keep adding adjectives directly to the noun, making very long words, with multiple morphemes which may be more difficult to learn. For example, I'm told that "fehrnsehapparatswiederherstellungarbeiter" is a TV repairman. I just wonder if there have been any studies on which languages are possibly more complicated to learn in the first place, and if stuttering is a language disorder wouldn't it make sense that people in countries with more "difficult" languages would have greater percentages of persons who stutter?