0 to make an effort to forget your usual way of doing something so that you can learn a new and sometimes better way: --
In order for children to converge on the adult grammar, they would have to unlearn the spec-head agreement rule(s) generating both overt and null medial complementizers.
The truth is that the scientific way of doing anything is puzzling to those who have learned some other way, and who are called on to unlearn.
However, it could be argued that transfer effects manifest themselves in the differing rates at which these generalizations are unlearned at the intermediate or advanced levels.
Aggression is a learned behavior and therefore can be unlearned.
This contrasts with the development of null objects which, as we shall see, are much more recalcitrant and take a longer time to unlearn.
Learning how to write is unlearning how to produce multimodal, visual meaning representations.
This result would suggest a conceptual bias affecting language use among children, that children would eventually need to unlearn.
Finally, they inhibited or unlearned the incorrect rule and formed correct specific associations between words and fruit.
