Biological Foundations of Language

Lenneberg, E. H. (1967). Biological Foundations of Language. Wiley.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1967

Link

https://archive.org/details/biologicalfounda0000lenn

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biology_ecology

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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.

• Readiness Window
  • 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.

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