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A deep look at how humans acquire language, from nativist theories and the critical period hypothesis to statistical learning.
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An explainer of how language acquisition works, opening with Nicaraguan Sign Language, the only documented case of a complete language created from nothing within a generation when deaf children added grammar their teachers never taught. It covers the critical period hypothesis and age-of-arrival evidence, the nativist position, statistical learning, word learning, how children acquire grammar, bilingualism, and second-language acquisition, weighing the innate-versus-learned debate with the empirical record.
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2 corrections applied: In-text DOI used Cognition prefix (0010-0277); correct Cognitive Psychology DOI is 10.1016/0010-0285(89)90003-0. | Reference-list DOI used Cognition prefix (0010-0277); correct Cognitive Psychology DOI is 10.1016/0010-0285(89)90003-0.
Beforepublished in Cognitive Psychology (doi: 10.1016/0010-0277(89)90044-6)
Afterpublished in Cognitive Psychology (doi: 10.1016/0010-0285(89)90003-0)
Why: Body content and reference list already correctly fixed to the Cognitive Psychology DOI. But the FAQ (decoded via 4-step op-sequence base64,json,base64,json) still had the stale Cognition-prefix DOI (10.1016/0010-0277(89)90044-6) in the critical-period-hypothesis answer. Fixed to the correct Cognitive Psychology DOI, re-encoded via the same op-sequence in reverse, PUT, and verified clean on re-fetch.
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