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Re:Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as childr... by garmaine on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:30PM (#19895293)
Yeah but there’s nothing physiological or neurological there, which is what the critical period hypothesis is predicting. It’s just the reality of childhood in an immersion environment.
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Re:Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as childr... by dragonwriter on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:21PM (#19895521)
> Yeah but there’s nothing physiological or neurological there

That's, IMO, an unwarranted (and, taken strictly, almost implausible) assumption. (Especially on the interest side.)

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