Language is one of those things that most of us take for granted, and like most things that we take for granted it’s actually a lot cooler than we could imagine. These are 25 unbelievable things you didn’t know about language and linguistics!
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Contrary to popular belief children are able to learn as many languages as they are consistently exposed to (theoretically all of them)
This means that the primary constraint for a child concerning the number of languages it can learn isn’t its brain power but rather the amount of exposure it has to any given language
Since it would be hard to consistently expose a child to multiple native speakers from numerous languages, linguists have determined that learning 4 languages simultaneously is the most realistic maximum
Once again contrary to popular belief, children are not confused by learning multiple languages. Although they do mix them in the beginning this quickly sorts itself out as time goes by
Babies are actually capable of discerning every potential sound of every human language
This “ability”, or window of opportunity, quickly fades around 5 years of age and is known as the critical period.
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