Why is the first year of life so important for language acquisition?
Scientific literature
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- Poorna Kushalnagar, Gaurav Mathur, Christopher J. Moreland, Donna Jo Napoli, Wendy Osterling, Carol Padden, Christian Rathmann (2010), Infants and Children with hearing loss need early language access . In: The journal of clinical ethics, 21, 143-154.
- Rachel I. Mayberry, Elizabeth Lock (2003), Age constraints on first versus second language acquisition: Evidence for linguistic plasticity and epigenesis. In: Brain and language, 87, 369-384.
- Jill P. Morford, Angus B. Grieve-Smith, James MacFarlane, Joshua Staley, Gabriel Waters (2008), Effects of language experience on the perception of American Sign Language In: Cognition, 109, 41-53