Eric Lenneberg
Eric Lenneberg · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychologist who proposed the biological foundations of language and the critical-period hypothesis.
1921, Düsseldorf, Germany — 1975
Germany · Brazil · United States
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Eric Lenneberg was a linguist and neurologist who founded the biological study of language, arguing in his 1967 Biological Foundations of Language that language rests on innate, maturing neural capacities and proposing the critical-period hypothesis for language acquisition. He taught at Harvard, Michigan and Cornell. Ethnically Jewish, he fled Nazi Germany with his family, first to Brazil and then to the United States.
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Psychologist who proposed the biological foundations of language and the critical-period hypothesis.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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