The Bilingual Brain: Human Evolution and Second Language Acquisition

For the past half-century, psycholinguistic research has concerned itself with two mysteries of human cognition: (1) that children universally acquire a highly abstract, computationally complex set of linguistic rules rapidly and effortlessly, and (2) that second language acquisition (SLA) among adu...

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Main Author: L. Kirk Hagen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490800600105