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| Title | New Book: Language Development and Age |
| Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-3482.html Language Development and Age by Julia Herschensohn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Summary: 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 cutoff, all cast doubt on a critical period for second language acquisition. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521872973 . |
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