Correction: The critical period hypothesis in second language acquisition: A statistical critique and a reanalysis (PLoS ONE (2013 ) 8, 7 (e69172) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069172);The Critical Period Hypothesis in Second Language Acquisition: A Statistical Critique and a Reanalysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Vanhove, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITICAL PERIOD HYPOTHESIS; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM SUBSP. SPELTA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880791352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102922     Document Type: Erratum

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