Maturational Constraints on Learning - CARTA presents Impact of Early Life Deprivation on Cognition – Elissa Newport
12/8/2019; 23 minutes
Our ability to learn languages fully and fluently changes over age. Young children are remarkable in learning languages so well – often much better than adults. Elissa Newport (Georgetown University) discusses how we have evolved to have such outstanding language learning abilities during childhood which do not continue throughout life. Recorded on 10/11/2019. (#35286)
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