Comments on: Losing Your Language /blog/2006/09/losing-your-language/ But I fear more for Muninn... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Muninn /blog/2006/09/losing-your-language/comment-page-1/#comment-16310 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:46:20 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2006/09/losing-your-language.html#comment-16310 Someone left a comment on this posting when it got put on agoravox.com:

This phenomenom is known as “Language attrition” and is studied by linguists and psychologists.
The younger the age of transplantation to a new language environment, the deeper the loss of the native language, it seems. For example, I have documented that Korean children adopted in France when they were between 3-10 years of age do not even identify Korean utterances: See the papers at

http://www.pallier.org/papers/Pallier_cerebralcortex2003.pdf and http://www.pallier.org/papers/…

In adults, there is not always a big loss but word finding difficulties seem common.

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