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Essay / Mental Grammar Essay - 720
You will not be able to observe any difference between a child who receives full linguistic input from an early age and an adolescent who did not receive linguistic input until after puberty. This will happen because there is no critical period for language acquisition and therefore they do not have a specific period or age in which they should learn the language. To be more precise, there will be no constraints on when the language must be learned. Additionally, the child is born with the innate knowledge and ability to learn a language. However, no evidence supports such a scenario, the reasoning behind this is based solely on