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Heritage Language Learners Show Unique Advantages in Chinese Language Processing

Dec 02, 20249 min
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Episode description

Learning a new language as an adult is challenging, especially when the new language has features that differ significantly from one's native tongue. This phenomenon is key to a new study led by Professor Shanshan Yan at Peking University, which examines how language learning is affected when learners encounter features in their second language that are similar to those in their first language.
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