Language learning as adults is not so different than as a child

Andrew Lucker – Mar 15, 2017 Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is selling bunk theory. The formal theory is called the critical age hypothesis by Eric Lenneberg(1921–1975), and yes it is no longer canon. All research points in a slightly different and perhaps noncontradictory direction. Adults can learn language like children, just that they don’t and probably will not. Not a satisfying …

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