My self-assuring takeaway from this: "You can be an excellent communicator, even if you don't sound like a native speaker or don't get all your sentences grammatically correct."
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"Ability declines" around 17 .... But does not disappear. Which may yield an experimental design for investigation. I started to learn Russian in my late 30s and German & Polish in my late 40s. French & Spanish as a teenager. Traces of Swahili.
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Ooof. Did this control for... I'm not going to have enough characters here.
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You mean control for the vast differences between what typical child and adult second language learners do and experience, to see to what extent the changes in these with age are responsible for the avg decline in attainment as opposed to an inherent loss of ability in the brain?
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Yes, and for confounders within populations who are learning a 2nd language and those who do not. This topic seems brutal. I don't mean to sound defeatist -it's just my natural state.
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This means a longer 'critical age'. Good to hear
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Rare tweets on linguistics after a long time.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think this will be continually revised upward over time. So much of the 'science' of language formation is dogmatic - many life changes are compounding at 18 and individual variability is enormous.
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Correlation does not imply causation. What about controlling for the vast differences between what typical adult and child L2 learners do & experience? Children get a rich input environment supporting implicit learning, are allowed to internalize L2 before producing it much, etc.
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Not for me. Started French at 11. Still useless.
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It's a foul language, anyways. Ain't nobody need it!
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Does this study show any differences or correlations between monolingual and bilingual learners?
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