LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: 18 Months
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Stages not ages people talk about milestones for babies. These serve as an important role in helping parents to identify potential problems early (if baby doesn"t reach milestone, it could be evidence of a problem: the problem with milestones is people tend to link them to ages. Instead, for language we should look at the stages that children go through. All children go through the same stages in the same order, though it might be at slightly different speeds: there is a lot of variation in the ages that children hit milestones. Or if someone tries to learn a language later in life: there is a change in the way that language is acquired. People are less successful at language acquisition after puberty: this suggests that there is a critical period for language acquisition (up to puberty, after the critical period is over, language acquisition changes.
