I can't find the full paper online, but it does seem to be a very narrowly defined idea of language aquisition. It deals only with children learning to read the

I can't find the full paper online, but it does seem to be a very narrowly defined idea of language aquisition. It deals only with children learning to read their native tongue. No allowance is made for any learning outside of the classroom. No consideration of the difficulty in learning the gender assignment to words in non-English languages. There are some valid observations too, but it's a pretty serious leap to draw the conclusion in the title.