LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND AGE by Julia Herschensohn ( 9781107404885 )

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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND AGE

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Julia Herschensohn

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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19 July, 2012

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304

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This book presents an examination of whether early childhood is a critical period for language acquisition.

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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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