Polyglots and the Comprehension Hypothesis

Abstract

Lomb Kato and Steven Kaufman have each acquired at least 15 languages as adults, many without living the country where the language is spoken. Their observations about language acquisition are in close agreement with the claims of current second language acquisition theory.

Keywords

• polyglot,comprehension,grammar,correction

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