The Critical Period for Sounding Native — What Science Says

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Is there a critical period for sounding native in a 2nd language? Here's what the science - as well as my own research - tells us. ﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏ Join ♣️ The Linguist List ♣️ to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWPmflIzM_mpBWGTVMGevxg/join [Timeline] [01:27] The Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) [02:26] Support for CPH [04:47] Arguments against CPH [06:10] Research on L2 Accent [07:55] My Research [10:54] My Results [References] Biro, F. M., Huang B., Wasserman, H., Gordon, C. M. & Pinney, S. M. (2020). Pubertal growth, IGF-1, and windows of susceptibility: Puberty and future breast cancer risk. Journal of Adolescent Health 68: 517–22. Chen, J. S. (2020). What’s the latest age you can acquire a second language without an accent?: Bilingual Chinese-English speakers rated from ages 1-18 of immigration. [Unpublished master's thesis]. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Flege, J. E. (1987). А critical period for learning to pronounce foreign languages. Applied Linguistics. 8, 162-177. Flege, J. E. & Fletcher, K.L. (1992). Talker and listener effects on degree of perceived foreign accent. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 91, 370-89. Krashen, S. (1975). The critical period for language acquisition and its possible bases. In D. Aronson & R. Rieber (Eds.). Developmental psycholinguistics and communication disorders (pp. 211-224). New York: New York Academy of Sciences. Lee, D. (1996). The critical period hypothesis and the acquisition of English pronouns by Korean speakers. English Teaching, 51(1). 83-96. Lenneberg, E. (1967). Biological Foundations of Language. New York: Wiley. Penfield, Wilder and Lamar Roberts. 1959. Speech and Brain Mechanisms. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. McLaughlin, B. (1984). Second language acquisition in childhood: Preschool children. Hillsdale. NJ: Erlbaum. Scovel, T. (1988). A Time to Speak: A Psycholinguistics Inquiry into the Critical Period for Human Speech. Rowley, MA: Newbury House. Seliger, H. (1978). Implications of multiple critical periods hypothesis for second language learning. In W.C. Ritchie (ed.) Second Language Acquisition Research. Issues and Implications (11-19). New York: Academic Press. Singleton, D. & Zsolt, L. (1995). The Age Factor in Second Language Acquisition. Multilingual Matters. Snow, C. E., & Hoefnagel-Höhle, M. (1978). The critical period for language acquisition: Evidence from second language learning. Child Development, 49(4), 1114–1128. https://doi.org/10.2307/1128751 Thompson, I. (1991). Foreign Accents Revisited: The English Pronunciation of Russian Immigrants. Language Learning 41:2, 177-204. Zhang, F. & Yin, P. (2009). A Study of Pronunciation Problems of English Learners in China. Asian Social Science 5:6, 141-6. [Graphics] www.flaticon.com www.pexels.com SAY HI! Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/julesytooshoes