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This is not about learning a second language, this is about learning to speak in the first place for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hyp
by GeoAtreides 2y ago
This is not about learning a second language, this is about learning to speak in the first place
for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis#Deaf_and_feral_children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period_hypothesis#Dea...
- hervature 2y agoThe leading sentence is: > The critical period hypothesis[1] is a theory within the field of linguistics and second language acquisition that claims a person can only achieve native-like fluency[2] in a language before a certain age. Granted, I do admit I missed the subtlety that it applies to learning a first language as well.