Maturational constraints in SLA

By Kenneth Hyltenstam, Niclas Abrahamsson. 2008

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch (2008, background): “Whereas Lenneberg thought that the critical age was around puberty, since then it has generally been assumed that the end of such an optimal period lies around age seven or eight (for a recent overview, see Hyltenstam and Abrahamsson, 2003).”
Hi-LAB: A New Measure of Aptitude for High-Level Language Proficiency (2013, background): “Yet, some adult learners do achieve near-native global proficiency that is virtually indistinguishable from native speakers on certain tasks, or as judged by naı̈ve raters (Birdsong, 2009; Bongaerts, 1999; Bongaerts, Mennen & van der Slik, 2000; Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson, 2003).”
Articles, adjectives and age of onset: the acquisition of Dutch grammatical gender (2008, background): “…lead to a critical period for language acquisition (Penfield and Roberts, 1959; Lenneberg, 1967; Newport, 1990; Birdsong, 1999; for an overview, see Hyltenstam and Abrahamsson, 2003), multiple critical periods (Meisel, 2007) or to multiple critical periods that each affect different aspects of the…”
Syntactic features and reanalysis in near-native processing (2006, background): “I Introduction Research on ultimate attainment in the L2 has hitherto investigated whether endstate L2 speakers attain levels of grammatical knowledge comparable to that of native speakers (e.g. Hyltenstam and Abrahamsson, 2003; Sorace, 2003).”
Weighing the benefits of studying a foreign language at a younger starting age in a minimal input situation (2008, background): “Extensive testing has established that ‘younger is better’ when it comes to both first and second language acquisition (for recent reviews, see Hyltenstam and Abrahamsson, 2003; DeKeyser and Larson-Hall, 2005).”
Age and Second Language Acquisition and Processing: A Selective Overview (2006, background): “In a reexamination of the Johnson and Newport (1989) data, Bialystok and Hakuta (1994) moved the cutoff point separating early- and late-arriving groups to 20 years.”
Age and input in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch (2008, background): “In contrast, L2 children are observed – and to a certain extent are assumed – to regularly attain native levels of competence (for relevant discussion, see Hyltenstam and Abrahamsson, 2003).”
Individual differences in child English second language acquisition Comparing child-internal and child-external factors (2011, background): “Differential long-term outcomes for L2 learners with variations in age of acquisition within childhood have been well documented (Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson, 2003).”
How similar are adult second language learners and Spanish heritage speakers? Spanish clitics and word order (2009, background): “…cognitive and linguistic approaches to L2 acquisition assume (Bley-Vroman, 1990; Clahsen & Muysken, 1986; DeKeyser 2000, 2003; Hawkins & Chan, 1997; Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson, 2003; Long, 1990; Meisel, 1997; Paradis, 2004; Schachter, 1990; Smith & Tsimpli, 1995), then it is possible that even if…”
Language attrition at the crossroads of brain, mind, and society (2007, background): “link with studies in language acquisition and learning – which may be considered the reverse of attrition if we expand Jakobson’s regression hypothesis (1941) – as documented by a growing number of studies attempting to apply theories of L2 acquisition/learning to L1 attrition (e.”
Age of onset, length of residence, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment in three linguistic domains (2013, background): “…1995; Moyer, 2009), and differences in their affective profiles (e.g. Moyer, 2004) and cognitive maturity (e.g. Newport, 1990), have all been proposed, but in the opinion of most reviewers (e.g. DeKeyser and Larson-Hall, 2005; Hyltenstam and Abrahamsson, 2003; Long, 1990) have been found wanting.”