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Boston College: The Brain and Language
May 13, 2018
CHESTNUT HILL, Massachusetts, May 13 -- Boston College issued the following news:

In a study of nearly 700,000 English speakers, researchers from Boston College, MIT and Harvard have discovered the optimal years to learn a second language extend to the cusp of adulthood, the team reports in the online edition of the journal Cognition.

It has long been known that children learn language more easily than adults, but determining exactly when that ability declines has been . . .

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