All the Following Are Examples of Critical-Period Effects EXCEPT

question 59

Multiple Choice

All the following are examples of critical-period effects EXCEPT:

• A) adults pick up vocabulary in a second language more quickly than do children due to their fast mapping skills
• B) adults learning a second language may speak with an accent, whereas children learning a second language may sound like a native
• C) those who learned English later in life show poorer grammatical abilities than those who learned English before their fifth birthday
• D) children who grow up without human communication struggle to learn the grammatical structure of any first language at a later age

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