Re: Do children learn language more easily?


Ar an ceathrú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh John Atkinson:

The multiple-explanation theory of critical period effects is not
necessarily incorrect, but it's certainly not very Occam-friendly.

It appears that it's not a matter of a single switch being switched off all
at once at age 5, or 10, or whatever. The language-learning device requires
input of the right kind right from the start, and starts gradually
switching off even before age 1 if it it doesn't get it.

It would be interesting in that context to see if people who are constantly
learning new languages by immersion from childhood, beyond the age of 10 or
so, are as successful in their language learning as children are.

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