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Publication details [#65587]

Mayberry, Rachel I. and Robert Kluender. 2018. Rethinking the critical period for language: New insights into an old question from American Sign Language. Bilingualism 21 (5) : 886–905.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | language | language proficiency | sign language

Language as a subject

Sign Language, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study states that L1 learning derives from post-natal brain evolution interacting with environmental linguistic experience. By contrast, L2 learning after early childhood is sustained by earlier childhood L1 learning, both linguistically and neurally, making it a less plain test of the critical period for language.