TY - JOUR
T1 - Critical period for first language
T2 - The crucial role of language input during the first year of life
AU - Friedmann, Naama
AU - Rusou, Dana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - The critical period for language acquisition is often explored in the context of second language acquisition. We focus on a crucially different notion of critical period for language, with a crucially different time scale: that of a critical period for first language acquisition. We approach this question by examining the language outcomes of children who missed their critical period for acquiring a first language: children who did not receive the required language input because they grew in isolation or due to hearing impairment and children whose brain has not developed normally because of thiamine deficiency. We find that the acquisition of syntax in a first language has a critical period that ends during the first year of life, and children who missed this window of opportunity later show severe syntactic impairments.
AB - The critical period for language acquisition is often explored in the context of second language acquisition. We focus on a crucially different notion of critical period for language, with a crucially different time scale: that of a critical period for first language acquisition. We approach this question by examining the language outcomes of children who missed their critical period for acquiring a first language: children who did not receive the required language input because they grew in isolation or due to hearing impairment and children whose brain has not developed normally because of thiamine deficiency. We find that the acquisition of syntax in a first language has a critical period that ends during the first year of life, and children who missed this window of opportunity later show severe syntactic impairments.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84934952943&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.conb.2015.06.003
DO - 10.1016/j.conb.2015.06.003
M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontojournal.systematicreview???
AN - SCOPUS:84934952943
SN - 0959-4388
VL - 35
SP - 27
EP - 34
JO - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
JF - Current Opinion in Neurobiology
ER -