LING 3Q91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Period Hypothesis, Word Family, Feral Child
26 Sep 2016
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This week more on the age factor in language learning. This week : also , age specific attainment in sla and the role of affect. The cph: support for the critical period hypothesis was advanced by the biologist lenneberg (1967, the cph states that ability to learn a language does not continue indefinitely but needs to be stimulated at the right time . If this does not happen by the age of around 12, then language may never be learnt fully: or language may never be learnt fully, the critical age is around 12, evidence from feral children" for this. There is speculation that vicor developed a serious mental condition as a young child which explains his abandonment and his inability to learn language. If you deny the children, they won"t develop language later in life. In tests of grammatical markers: clear differences. Native group outperformed : exposed to asl from birth.
