NPR – Emily Kwong and Thomas Lu
“Short Wave hosts Maddie Sofia and Emily Kwong dissect the “critical period hypothesis,” a theory which linguists have been debating for decades — with the help of Sarah Frances Phillips, a Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at New York University. We explore where the theory comes from, how it applies to second-language acquisition, and what it means for Emily’s efforts to learn Mandarin Chinese as an adult.” (more)