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Planning and executing a sentence that encodes an event with several participants is quite complicated for the novice language user. You have probably noticed this if you are learning to speak a foreign language. You have to choose and remember the appropriate words,
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think of the order in which they should come, and put your tongue, lips, vocal cords and lungs into action to produce the whole thing with a ‘native accent’. In the early stages it is not surprising that children often have a couple of trial runs before they produce their final version of the sentence.
