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Norrman, Gunnar; Bylund, Emanuel – Developmental Science, 2016
The question of a sensitive period in language acquisition has been subject to extensive research and debate for more than half a century. While it has been well established that the ability to learn new languages declines in early years, the extent to which this outcome depends on biological maturation in contrast to previously acquired knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Swedish
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Leech, Robert; Aydelott, Jennifer; Symons, Germaine; Carnevale, Julia; Dick, Frederic – Developmental Science, 2007
How does the development and consolidation of perceptual, attentional, and higher cognitive abilities interact with language acquisition and processing? We explored children's (ages 5-17) and adults' (ages 18-51) comprehension of morphosyntactically varied sentences under several competing speech conditions that varied in the degree of attentional…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Language Acquisition, Sentences