For more information on the Great Depression, click on the link to an article entitled "'I Remember…' Reminiscences of the Great Depression," originally published in Michigan History Magazine. Read the oral histories at this web site and consider how the Great Depression seems to have affected the person whose story is told.
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/techstuf/depressn/teacup.html
For more information on language acquisition, go to the web site developed by Professor Robert Beard, of the Linguistics Program at Bucknell University. This web site gives a brief, accurate overview of the nature-nurture question as it concerns language acquisition, as well as links to other related sites of interest.
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/acquisition.html
