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Language Development and Age
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The anecdotal view of language acquisition is that children learn language with apparent ease, no instruction and in very little time, while adults find learning a new language to be cognitively challenging, labour intensive and time-consuming. In this book Herschensohn examines whether early childhood is a critical period for language acquisition after which individuals cannot learn a language as native speakers. She argues that a first language is largely susceptible to age constraints, showing major deficits past the age of twelve. Second language acquisition also shows age effects, but with a range of individual differences. The competence of expert adult learners, the unequal achievements of child learners of second languages, and the lack of consistent evidence for a maturational cut-off, all cast doubt on a critical period for second language acquisition.
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Cambridge University Press; October 2007
304 pages; ISBN 9780511364006
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304 pages; ISBN 9780511364006
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Subject categories
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Philology. Linguistics > Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar > Language acquisition
- Academic > Languages and Linguistics > Philology. Linguistics > General
- Psychology & Psychiatry > Developmental > Child
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Linguistics
- Language Arts & Disciplines > Semantics
ISBNs
0511364008
9780511364006
9780511365225
9780521872973

