Questão 96726 de Língua Inglesa - PORTAL CONCURSOS 2025

Questão

ID 96726

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Assunto: Aquisição de Segunda Língua | Second Language Acquisition

Ano: 2025 Banca: PORTAL CONCURSOS Órgão: PORTAL CONCURSOS

The Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) suggests that there is a biologically determined period of life, early in development, during which language can be acquired with native-like fluency. After this period, which is often thought to end around puberty, the capacity for language acquisition declines significantly. This hypothesis has profound implications for understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of language and for second language pedagogy. Which of the following pieces of evidence provides the STRONGEST support for the existence of a critical period for first language acquisition?

Alternativa A:
The observation that adults learning a second language often retain a foreign accent, while children who immigrate before puberty typically achieve native-like pronunciation.
Alternativa B:
Studies of brain plasticity showing that the neural circuits dedicated to language are more malleable during childhood and become more fixed in adulthood.
Alternativa C:
The different recovery outcomes in aphasia patients, where children with brain damage to language areas often show more complete recovery of language function than adults with similar injuries.
Alternativa D:
Cases of 'feral' or severely isolated children, such as Genie, who were deprived of linguistic input during their early years and were subsequently unable to acquire complex syntactic structures despite intensive instruction.
Alternativa E:
The universal and predictable stages of language development observed in children across different cultures and languages, such as babbling, the one-word stage, and the two-word stage.

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