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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 20 Oct 2011
Time: 08:31:40 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.31
Dear Curious, One reason is that young children start so many of their sentences with monosyllabic words like "I," "me," and "you" which are pronouns, and hence function words. I'm sure there are other reasons. Nan Ratner and her colleagues have researched this extensively. Ken