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Critical Period Hypothesis

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Paper1989

Critical Period Effects in Second Language Learning: The Influence of Maturational State on the Acquisition of English as a Second Language

Jacqueline S. Johnson & Elissa L. Newport

Tests the critical period hypothesis directly by measuring grammaticality judgments in Korean and Chinese immigrants who began learning English at different ages, finding attainment declines linearly with age of arrival up to puberty and unpredictably after.

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Paper2018

Rethinking the Critical Period for Language: New Insights into an Old Question from American Sign Language

Rachel I. Mayberry & Robert Kluender

Argues, from deaf adults who first learned a language at varying ages, that age-of-onset effects for a first language and for a second language reflect different underlying causes, so a single maturational critical period cannot explain both.

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Critical Period Effects in Second Language Learning: The Influence of Maturational State on the Acquisition of English as a Second Language

Rethinking the Critical Period for Language: New Insights into an Old Question from American Sign Language

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