Parents often hear the warning: “If your child doesn’t learn a second language early, they’ll never be fluent.” Adults, meanwhile, are told: “It’s just too late for you to learn now.” These claims are ...

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Speech perception in second language acquisition examines how learners detect, categorise and integrate sounds of a new language. Adult learners often face challenges when L2 phonemes do not align ...

There's a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...