Is there a critical period for semantics?

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  • Roumyana Slabakova
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features). Lee and Schachter (1997) suggested that principles of universal grammer or UG (e.g. binding, subjacency) and parameters have different age-related cut-off points for successful triggering and acquisition (however, compare Coppieters, 1987; Birdsong, 1992). Proposals of this type can be united under the label Multiple CPH. In recent years, efforts have turned to isolating precisely which linguistic modules, submodules, features, or interface areas are affected, how, and why. For example, Beck (1998) proposes a kind of maturationally-determined localized impairment specifically affecting the feature strength of functional categories. Another example is Hawkins and Chan’s (1997) Failed Formal Features Hypothesis (FFFH) and its updated 2 Is there a critical period for semantics?

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تاریخ انتشار 2005