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