Biological Foundations of Language¶
Lenneberg, E. H. (1967). Biological Foundations of Language. Wiley.
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Primes¶
- Critical Period
- Education and policy: many motor and musical skills (absolute pitch, native accent) are age-gated; habit-installation windows (adolescence, life transitions, post-disaster, post-election) give policy disproportionate leverage when targeted and little when missed.
This sourceCanonical statement of the critical-period hypothesis for first-language acquisition — implicit native-grammar acquisition is gated to a maturational window from infancy to puberty, after which full acquisition is far harder; phonology/accent is the most age-constrained aspect.
- Education and policy: many motor and musical skills (absolute pitch, native accent) are age-gated; habit-installation windows (adolescence, life transitions, post-disaster, post-election) give policy disproportionate leverage when targeted and little when missed.
- Readiness Window
- … must be treated inside the window, and the same patching that restores vision at age five has little effect at thirty — the design constraint is timing-relative, not merit-relative. The same phase-structured pattern recurs in language acquisition (native-like phonology requiring exposure inside a sensitive period
This sourceStates the critical-period hypothesis for language, with native-like acquisition requiring exposure within a sensitive period.
- … must be treated inside the window, and the same patching that restores vision at age five has little effect at thirty — the design constraint is timing-relative, not merit-relative. The same phase-structured pattern recurs in language acquisition (native-like phonology requiring exposure inside a sensitive period
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