Who among the following is the most likely to learn to speak a new language just as fluently as a native speaker?
a. a 10-month-old baby
b. a 10-year-old child
c. a very motivated adult
d. (a) and (b) are both correct
e. (a) and (b) and (c) are all correct
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d) (a) and (b) are both correct
Explanation:
- The ability to learn a new language, at least grammatically, is strongest until the age of 18 after which there is a precipitous decline. To become completely fluent, however, learning should start before the age of 10.
- Babies from the age of 8 months a can recognise groups of sounds & can distinguish "word boundaries". Though they recognise "sound groups" as words, they still learn what these "words actually mean".
- From this stage onwards, at each stage, they learn different things such as attaching meanings to words (12 months), recognise the difference between nouns & verbs (18 months), gain an understanding of "basic sentence structure" (24 months), speak grammatically correct sentences mostly (3-36 months), Beyond 3 years, they continue to expand their vocabulary & develop more "complex language"
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