By D. M. Singleton, Zsolt Lengyel, David Singleton
Assembles a number of views at the age think about moment language acquistion via all of which runs the typical thread of convinced scepticism in regards to absolutist model of the concept there's a specific maturational level past which language studying isn't any longer attainable.
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They will, he claims, 'end up easily identified as nonnative speakers of that language' (p. 123). What is the empirical evidence for the existence of a critical period for the acquisition of a native accent in a foreign language? Let us first consider those studies that have compared eventual phonological attainment by child and adult learners and then turn to a study that was specifically designed to test the hypothesis that a native accent in a foreign language is no longer attainable for adult learners.
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Subjects were not informed about the aims of the study and were not told beforehand that their speech samples would be rated for degree of accent. When interviewed after task completion, most subjects reported that they did not begin to realise that their pronunciation would be judged until after they had done the second or third task. Subjects were given the opportunity to make a few notes before doing the first task. Between tasks they were allowed to pause briefly and to look over the printed materials before reading them into the microphone.