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SUMMARY:LuCiD Seminar | Language development in internationally-adopted c
 hildren: A special case of very early second language learning
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DESCRIPTION:'''Host:'''  School of Psychological Sciences\n\n'''About the
  event:''' \n\nInternationally-adopted children are a special case of ve
 ry early second language acquisition – they discontinue acquisition of t
 he birth language at adoption at which time they learn and use only the 
 second language. \n\nThey raise a number of important and interesting is
 sues with respect to language learning and loss: “Is a very early acquir
 ed ‘second language’ acquired like a first or like a second language?”\;
  “What are the underlying explanations for differences in early second l
 anguage versus first language acquisition?”\; “Is a first language compl
 etely lost when exposure to and use of that language terminates?”.  \n\n
 In this talk\, Prof Fred Genesee (McGill University) will present longit
 udinal behavioural results of a 10-year longitudinal study of internatio
 nally-adopted children from China in comparison to matched monolingual c
 ontrol children indicating that they differ from monolinguals. He will a
 lso present data suggesting that gaps in their acquisition of their “sec
 ond first language” is related to underlying lags in verbal memory. \n\n
 Finally\, some recent fMRI data will be presented that reveal whether th
 ey actually entirely lose their birth language and whether the adopted l
 anguage is processed in the same way as that of native-speaking monoling
 uals.\n\n'''Further information:'''\n\nFor further information about thi
 s seminar\, please contact:\n*[mailto:michaeline.k.glover@manchester.ac.
 uk michaeline.k.glover@manchester.ac.uk]\n\nOr for information about LuC
 iD\, please contact:\n*[mailto:helen.allwood@manchester.ac.uk helen.allw
 ood@manchester.ac.uk]\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:4.205\, University Place\, Manchester
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