Sensitive periods in both L1 and L2
- The keynote article (Mayberry & Kluender, 2017) makes an important contribution to questions concerning the existence and characteristics of sensitive periods in language acquisition. Specifically, by comparing groups of non-native L1 and L2 signers, the authors have been able to ingeniously disentangle the effects of maturation from those of early language exposure. Based on L1 versus L2 contrasts, the paper convincingly argues that L2 learning is a less clear test of sensitive periods. Nevertheless, we believe Mayberry and Kluender underestimate the evidence for maturational factors in L2 learning, especially that coming from recent research.
| Author details: | João Marques VerissimoORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000275 |
| ISSN: | 1366-7289 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1841 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Bilingualism : language and cognition |
| Subtitle (English): | Some conceptual and methodological suggestions |
| Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Other |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2017 |
| Publication year: | 2017 |
| Release date: | 2021/07/19 |
| Tag: | age of acquisition; bilingualism; critical period for language; language acquisition; sensitive periods |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Number of pages: | 2 |
| First page: | 932 |
| Last Page: | 933 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Bronze Open-Access |
