The Critical Period Hypothesis for Second Language Acquisition: Tailoring the Coat of Many Colors
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The present contribution represents an extension of David Singleton’s (2005) IRAL chapter, ‘‘The Critical Period Hypothesis: A coat of many colours’’. I suggest that the CPH in its application to L2 acquisition could benefit from methodological and theoretical tailoring with respect to: the shape of the function that relates age of acquisition to proficiency, the use of nativelikeness for falsification of the CPH, and the framing of predictors of L2 attainment.
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